Liya Page

Liya grew up in Sri Lanka, with her parents and older brother. She started writing at the age of 12 and much like Rose in Dear Star she had a habit of turning small incidents from her life into stories. She loved English, reading (especially her Mum’s old Mills and Boon collection from the 60s) and drama, and had found her calling as a drama teacher, when she got married to her best friend and moved to England. She was settling into her life as a housewife and Mum, when on an otherwise uneventful evening in London she spotted a young girl in a pink coat and black Louboutins, walking down the street in the rain and was first inspired to create Rose. Ever since, she’s juggled looking after the four-and-a-half-year-old love of her life with writing. Currently she is busy trying to do justice to Rose and Ron in the sequel to Dear star, True Rose. “The premise of Dear star was born out of a rather childish dream I once had as a teenager. I believe that the underlying theme of the inability to make a distinction between reality and fantasy in Rose’s story is an issue very much prevalent in society today.”