Francesca Armour-Chelu grew up by the Suffolk coast. Her experience of living on water meadows in an abandoned Edwardian railway carriage inspired her debut novel, Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition 2012 and the Mal Peet Children's Book Award and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2017 and The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award 2017.

Her second novel in this series, Fenn Halflin and the Seaborn was shortlisted for the Mal Peet Children’s Award at the East Anglian Book Awards