About the author

Ree Kimberley

<p>Ree Kimberley grew up in Melbourne and travelled Australia before living in tropical Cairns and then settling in Brisbane, in sunny Queensland. She&#39;s always loved reading and wrote her first novel, <em>Strike Up a Friendship with a Vampire</em>, when she was 10 years old. Ree&#39;s writerly obsessions include weird science and things that are bizarre, strange and a little bit gross. She also has a thing for circuses (she swears she is not scared of clowns!)</p> <p>Ree says that if she wasn&#39;t a writer, she&#39;d love to be a teratologist (someone who studies monsters). Come to think of it, she sort of is.</p> <p><em>Rat City</em> is Ree&#39;s first novel, and the first in a three-part series, Rat Generation.</p> <p>Ree loves to chat with her readers so make sure you connect with her online:</p> <p>www.reekimberley.com</p> <p>Instagram: reekimberley</p> <p><strong>Author&#39;s note</strong></p> <p>Rats. People either love them or hate them. Whatever you think of them, there&#39;s no denying that they&#39;re smart and have lots of skills. Rats can swim, climb and jump. They hold their breath so well they can run up through a sewer pipe into your toilet (yes, this happens!) They can run and scale walls as well as any parkour champion. Like their arch enemies, cats, rats can jump from a great height and land on their feet. With a running start, they can leap up onto an object that&#39;s almost a metre high. In human terms, that&#39;s like being able to run and jump onto the roof of your house. With all these amazing skills, when rat DNA is combined with humans, some super-human skills are bound to evolve. And that was the reason I wrote Rat City. Because imagine, in the future, if it wasn&#39;t robots that took over the world, but human-rats.</p> <p>***</p> <p><strong>Love Rat City?&nbsp; Write a review (pretty please!)</strong></p> <p>Authors love it when readers love their books, so if you enjoyed Rat City, why not share the love and write a review? Ree will be forever in your debt and promises to send loads of good karma your way.</p>