User:Pauline Fisk

I grew up in the suburbs of south London, a shy girl who loved books and created a world inside her head. The way I saw it, my parents’ garden was full of hidden fairy folk, the alley behind it was their kingdom and if home life was boring at least the local library was close by - my gateway to all things fabulous and exciting.

I made up stories from an early age. Reading had brought me freedom, but writing was even more liberating. I have now been a published author for many years. My first novel, 'Midnight Blue' won the Smarties Book Prize, and my latest novel, 'In the Trees' saw me heading out to the jungles of Belize, funded by the Society of Authors and the UK Arts Council, to research gap year volunteering.

I live in Shropshire, England. I'm a member of the Society of Authors. I'm a family person, with five grown up children. I'm also a weaver and a member of the British Tapestry Group.

On my website, www.paulinefisk.co.uk, I blog about the writer's life and I'm also serializing the journal of my travels round Belize.

My novels are: Midnight Blue, Telling the Sea [both Lion Publishing], Tyger Pool, The Candle House [Random House], The Beast of Whixall Moss [Walker Books], Sabrina Fludde, the Red Judge, Mad Dog Moonlight [Bloomsbury], The Mrs Marridge Project, Flying for Frankie, In The Trees [Faber & Faber].