Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children’s author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade.
Eve Best is an English stage and screen actress and director, best known for her roles as Dr O'Hara in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie, Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech, and Dolley Madison in the 2011 American Experience television special about that First Lady. Best was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a play for her work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and received an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the title role in Hedda Gabler in 2005.