Lucia Perrucci grew up in Puglia, among olive groves, cats and rolls of film. She has always been in love with stories, studying literature in Bologna and scriptwriting at the Giffoni Film Festival masterclass. Today she writes and teaches at school, where she madly adores her students, from whom she steals perhaps her most interesting ideas. Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine is her first children’s novel.