How did Michelle set about creating Torak's world? Six thousand years ago (i.e. after that Ice Age but before farming) the people of northern Europe lived in small clans, hunting and gathering their food. Michelle wanted the reader to be there in the Forest with Torak and Renn and Wolf: to experience the sights, smells, sounds, and feelings of the adventure. To recreate this almost-vanished universe, she decided to track down the last remaining traces of this way of life. This is how she did it...

What made her start writing? What other jobs has she done? Why can't she whistle? You can find answers to these and many more things you never knew about Michelle in this, the most comprehensive collection of interview questions and answers about her ever assembled...

Even before she could read, Michelle was fascinated by a book her parents owned which contained beautiful pictures of life in the Stone Age. Then as a ten-year-old she became passionately keen on wolves. She longed to hunt with a bow and arrow, make her own shelters - and of course, to have her own wolf! Since they lived in London, her parents gave her a spaniel instead! Nevertheless, she managed to get rid of her bed and sleep on the floor; and she dug up her parents' lawn, and grew strange medicinal herbs. many years went by until the next opporunity arose for Michelle to get closer to her dream...