Lucy Strange
Saturday 25th October
12.15-1.15pm
Festival Marquee, Malvern Priory Grounds
Age recommendation: 9-12 years (all children must be accompanied by a paying adult)
Bestselling children’s author Lucy Strange lives in the heart of the Kent Downs with her partner and their little boy. Her novels for children include The Secret of Nightingale Wood (Waterstones Book of the Month) and Our Castle by the Sea (Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Month, The Times Book of the Week, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020). Lucy’s new book The Ghost of Gosswater is a gothic adventure set in the Lake District at the turn of the century and will be published by Chicken House in October 2020.
Lucy’s novels have been published all over the world, including America, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Iran and Hungary, with a fully illustrated Russian edition of The Secret of Nightingale Wood recently released and a Mandarin translation on its way soon. Lucy narrates the audiobook versions of her novels for both the UK and the US, winning a 2019 Audie Award in New York and being shortlisted for their 2020 Middle Grade Award.
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The Great Malvern Festival of Stories for Children is part funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
