Stacey Halls is a British author best known for her debut novel, The Familiars. The novel was published in 2019 and was an instant success, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller and winning the 2020 RNA Historical Novel of the Year Award. Halls has since written two more novels, The Foundling and The Wild Lass, both of which have been critically acclaimed. Halls is passionate about writing stories that explore the lives of women throughout history, and her work has been praised for its vivid and captivating storytelling. She is currently working on her fourth novel, which is due to be released in 2021.