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Julie Hearn
Have you always wanted to be a writer?
Ever since I can remember. When I was five I wrote stories about elves and rabbits on scraps of paper and sewed them up the middle to make little books. I wrote diaries too - pages and pages every day - and if nothing exciting had happened I made stuff up. My teenage diaries are shocking, but a pack of lies from start to finish.
I still wanted to write when I left school so I became a journalist. And that was great fun, for a long time, although when it came to making things up, there was only so far I could go!
Why did you decide to write children's books rather than books for adults?
I suppose I'd had enough of writing for adults - first as a journalist, then as a student of English and women's studies. I wanted to give my imagination free rein in a way that didn't have to be clever, or cynical, or have a great wodge of footnotes at the bottom of every page to explain things!
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Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010. A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War. Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
Julie Hearn
This is a new edition of Julie Hearn's stunning debut novel that takes the reader on a dramatic trip into a strange and original world, republished to coincide with the publication of her brand new novel in hardback Rowan...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
Julie Hearn
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 A powerful and compelling story of life in a mental asylum at the start of the Second World War. Rowan may be strange but he's not dangerous so when he is sent behind...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
Julie Hearn
Hazel’s life is changed forever on the day that she sees a woman step out in front of the King’s horse during the Epsom Derby on June 4th, 1913. Who was the woman and why did she do it? Hazel’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
Julie Hearn
Rich in atmosphere and stuffed full of fascinating and unusual characters, Ivy is the story of survival. Little Ivy’s childhood has been far from straightforward. Abandoned and neglected, she’s spent years of her life luring wealthy little children aware from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
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