Helen Stringer

Helen Stringer is the author of the Middle Grade fantasy novels, "Spellbinder" and "The Midnight Gate." A storyteller since her Liverpool, England childhood, her first job was researching the family history of the Earls of Sefton at their estate, Croxteth Hall. Helen now lives in a barn in Northern California, where writes, reads a lot of history, collects vintage cookbooks, and loves to cook - though she has yet to try the recipe for invalids in a cookbook from 1736 which involves putting 200...See more

Helen Stringer is the author of the Middle Grade fantasy novels, "Spellbinder" and "The Midnight Gate." A storyteller since her Liverpool, England childhood, her first job was researching the family history of the Earls of Sefton at their estate, Croxteth Hall. Helen now lives in a barn in Northern California, where writes, reads a lot of history, collects vintage cookbooks, and loves to cook - though she has yet to try the recipe for invalids in a cookbook from 1736 which involves putting 200 dead sparrows into an earthenware jar, burying them in horse dung for a month, and then making them into a broth - though she believes the smell alone would be enough to get you out of bed. See less