Shelley is originally from South Africa and the author of 39 books. She grew up in a bi-racial family at the height of Apartheid. She left South Africa as a young adult just as her writing began to take off with the publication of her first award-winning young adult novel, Freefalling. Shelley has lived and worked on 5 continents, searching for home, which she has finally found on Australia’s east coast. Her most recent book is Raising Stress-Proof Kids.