One night Tiger hears a scrabbling noise in her room and discovers the Sock Monsters, frantic with distress because one of them has eaten a jersey and feels ill. Tiger takes care of them and feeds them old socks and when they scare a burglar off, Tiger's mother agrees to let them stay.
Lady Georgia Mary Caroline Byng, (b. 1965), is a British author of children's books and a former actress. Her first writing was for a comic strip, and her first published book was The Sock Monsters. Byng's best known work is Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism and its sequels, about a girl who finds a book about hypnotism and learns how to hypnotize people. Georgia's first published item was a comic strip for kids from the age of five to seven.