Scarlet and Ivy is a series of young adult novels by American author Sophie Cleverly. The first novel of the series was The Lost Twin a highly popular and critically acclaimed novel that was such a success that it spawned an entire novel series that is still ongoing. Sophie Cleverly was born in 1989 in Bath a small town in Maine. Growing up she was very much interested in children’s literature and read the likes of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett who incidentally write both children and adult literature. Her Scarlet and Ivy series has been greatly inspired by The Graveyard Book and Coraline by Gaiman and Tiffany Aching by Pratchett. What she especially liked about these novels was that they were beautiful, sad, scary and funny all at the same time. She was quite the reader and would visit the city library and borrow as many books as she could to read during the week. In addition to these she would…show more content… In fact English was one of their favorite subjects in high school and hence it was with great pleasure that she learned that one could take a university course in exactly the same discipline she had craved all her life. Sophie Cleverly he decided to undertake a bachelors in Creative Writing and would then proceed to do a masters specializing in young adult fiction. The Scarlet and Ivy series was long in the pipeline as Sophie got the inspiration for the novel when her university lecturer gave the class an exercise. The professor asked them to create a setting in which a character is coming back to a room that they had last been in years past. She imagined her character as a girl coming back to a room with twin beds though it was not clear who the owner of the other bed was. By the end of the course she had developed something of a secret diary and an idea for a lost twin for the lead. She felt that there was more to the story and that she needed to tell
