The children are called Cadmium ('Caddy'), Saffron ('Saffy'), Indigo ('Indy') and Permanent Rose (Rosy Pose), and are named after paint colours (a large paint chart that hangs in the Casson family's kitchen that plays an important role in the book Saffy's Angel.) The parents' names are Eve and Bill. The series focuses on an English family of artists, the Cassons. The Casson Family series comprises the Whitbread Award-winning Saffy's Angel (2001) and four sequels: Indigo's Star (2004), Permanent Rose (2005), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread awards, Caddy Ever After (2006), Forever Rose (2007), and prequel Caddy's World (2011). The local library was as familiar to me as my own home." The Casson Family books McKay says of herself as a child "I anaesthetised myself against the big bad world with large doses of literature.
She currently resides in Derbyshire with her husband, Kevin.
She studied English, Zoology and Botany at St Andrews University before becoming a public protection scientist. McKay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the eldest of four daughters. For her first novel, The Exiles, she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Hilary McKay (born 12 June 1959) is a British writer of children's books. British writer of children's books (born 1959)
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