Mairi Craw has an MA in English Literature and History of Fine Art from Glasgow University. She worked in publicity and design at the BBC, before leaving to set up her own business in Dorset in the south-west of England. In November 2005 `Beyond the Hedge`, the first in a series of reality-based fantasy novels, was published and David Rintoul`s unabridged dramatised reading received a world premiere broadcast on Oneword Radio the following month.
The first in a series of reality-based fantasies, set on the south-west coast of Scotland, which chronicle the adventures of Sandy Henderson. When her cat Leo tumbles headlong into the enchanted land of Sylvania, beyond a huge hedge at the bottom of the garden, Sandy undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue him in the company of a handsome, swaggering crow and the Hendersons' haughty Siamese cat Jamie. Will Sandy be in time to save Leo and will she and her companions ever see Scotland again?