Sally Prue
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Sally Prue is a British author known for her fictional novel named Cold Tom (which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002). Sally Prue has currently written 8 novels.
[edit] Biography
Sally Prue was brought up in Hertfordshire, England from the time she was adopted as a baby. She attended Nash Mills and Longdean Schools which afterwards she began to work at a paper mill with the rest of her family.
Her first real job was as a clerk and following that as a Time and Motion person. She was forced to quit the job due to pregnancy with her first daughter. Following on from that she has had another daughter their names being Elizabeth and Rosalind.
During the period of time between bringing up her children she gradually became better at writing fiction and hired an agent named Elizabeth Roy. Her first novel was Cold Tom won 2 awards: Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. She later published novels like The Devil's Toenail (2004) and Ryland's Footsteps (2004).
[edit] Bibliography
- Cold Tom (2002)
- The Devil's Toenail (2002)
- Ryland's Footsteps (2003)
- Goldkeeper (2004)
- The Path of Finn McCool (2004)
- James and the Alien Experiment (2005)
- The Truth Sayer (2007)
- March of the Owlmen (2008)
