Rose Impey is a prolific author of books for all age groups. Animal Crackers and Titchy Witch are her top-selling series of young readers from Orchard, and The Sleepover Club, a series Rose created for HarperCollins, has sold over one million copies and is the basis for a major children's TV series. She has been shortlisted for the Smarties Children's Book Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny prize, and her books have been published in over eight countries. Before having a child herself, Rose taught in a primary school in Leicester and it was her experience of telling stories as a teacher that led her to write for children. Rose lives in Birstall, Leicestershire.

Some people, when they are told they must not do something, simply have to do it. Pandora is one of these people... Pandora is talented and the perfect companion for her husband, but she has this one fatal flaw. She tries her hardest to stay away from the wedding gift that she has been warned never to touch: a strange, carved box. Yet finally her curiosity gets the better of her and she opens it, thereby unleashing all the ills and evils into the world. But as Pandora despairs at what she's done, she sees one final thing remains in the box - a small thing called hope.