Susie Day

Susie Day is a British children's writer known for funny, inclusive novels about friendship, families, identity, and growing up online. She trained as a primary teacher and served as residential warden in an international boarding school before combining writing with publishing and educational work. My Invisible Boyfriend, published by Scholastic in 2010, follows Heidi, who invents a distant boyfriend and gives him an online profile to improve her social standing. The deception becomes harder to control when friends contact the imaginary boy for advice and another correspondent claims to know the truth. The premise connects digital performance with friendship, a concern that also appears in Day's earlier novel Serafina67 *urgently requires life*. Her first book, Whump!, won the BBC Talent children's fiction prize. She later created the Pea and Secrets series for younger readers, foregrounding families and experiences often underrepresented in publishing. My Invisible Boyfriend belongs to the teenage side of that varied catalogue, using comedy to examine honesty, loneliness, and online self-invention.