Lisa Woollett grew up on eroding cliffs on the Isle of Sheppey, with stories of local pubs and churches that had been lost to the sea. A photographer and beachcomber, she is the author of several award-winning books, most recently Rag and Bone which won the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction. Since 2004 she has lived with her family on the south coast of Cornwall, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of beach finds.