Esme King is an author, former news journalist, and award-winning short film writer and director. She was inspired to write the novel 'Reasons to Go Outside' after interviewing a woman with agoraphobia. The meeting had such a profound effect on her she went home immediately and began writing a novel where the principal character has spent a lifetime living only indoors and never stepping through her own front door. Esme lives in Devon with her husband, two children and rescue dog, Milo.