Monica McInerney is the Australian-born author of Hello from the Gillespies, The House of Memories, Lola's Secret, At Home with the Templetons, Family Baggage, The Alphabet Sisters, Spin the Bottle, Upside Down Inside Out, and A Taste for It. She also wrote the novella Odd One Out and a short story collection entitled All Together Now. Those Faraday Girls won the General Fiction Book of the Year in the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards.