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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Published: 06 Aug 2001

ISBN 10: 0744582652
ISBN 13: 9780744582659
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: Jane Gardam has won the Whitbread Award twice - once for The Hollow Land and, in 1991, for her adult novel The Queen of the Tambourine . In addition God on the Rocks was runner-up for the Booker Prize and Bridget and William was Commended for the Carnegie Medal.

Author Bio
Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award - for her children's book The Hollow Land and, in 1991, for her adult novel The Queen of the Tambourine. In addition, God on the Rocks was runner-up for the Booker Prize and Bridget and William (now available as one of two stories in the Walker Double Black Woolly Pony, White Chalk Horse) was Commended for the Carnegie Medal. Her other titles include Tufty Bear and The Kit Stories. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in an old house in Kent, which has the ruins of a monastery, a chapel and a ghost in the garden.