Alwyn Hamilton was born in Toronto and spent her early years bouncing between Europe and Canada until her parents settled in France. She  left France for Cambridge University to study History of Art at King’s  College. On graduating  she worked in a bookshop in France, where she rediscovered YA. She then  moved to London where she now lives and put her degree to use working  for an auction house. REBEL OF THE SANDS is her first novel.

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