Kit PearsonΒ worked as a librarian for many years before publishing her first novel,Β The Daring GameΒ (1986). She went on to write the linked novelsΒ The Sky Is FallingΒ (1989),Looking at the MoonΒ (1991), andΒ The Lights Go On AgainΒ (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War trilogy, andΒ Awake and DreamingΒ (1996), which won the Governor Generalβs Award. Pearson lives in Victoria, close to Ross Bay Cemetery, one of the settings inΒ Awake and Dreaming.