“I was diagnosed autistic and ADHD two years ago, and so researching Bletchley Park with a fresh and nuanced understanding of what neurodivergence really looks like, and all of the magnificently different ways it can present, felt like coming home. ”
Robin Stevens’ series The Ministry of Unladylike Activity features May Wong, whose big sister Hazel stars in Stevens’ best-selling franchise , Murder Most Unladylike . Robin returns to Dublin to tell us all about A Stocking Full of Spies , the latest exploits of May and her Irish friend Nuala. In December 1941 a bomb falls on Deepdean School for Girls, so the girls are whisked away to stay with Hazel at Bletchley Park, the strange and secretive code-breaking place, full of Britain’s most ingenious minds. It’s their most dangerous and difficult case yet!
Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. From the age of twelve she was determined to write daring murder mysteries, and hoped she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she hasn’t yet, but you never know!). She also wrote The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd’s The London Eye Mystery .