PATRICE LAWRENCE

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her books have been shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Carnegie Award, won the Bookseller YA Prize and Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction, the Bristol Crimefest YA Prize (twice), the Woman and Home Teen Drama Award, the inaugural Jhalak Children’s Award for Writers of Colour and the Little Rebels Awards for Radical Children’s Fiction. She has been awarded an MBE for Literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.