Hilary McKay is the award-winning author of Love to Everyone, Binny Bewitched (which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and received two starred reviews), Binny in Secret (which received three starred reviews), Binny for Short (which received four starred reviews), and six novels about the Casson family: Saffy's Angel, Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose, and Caddy's World. She is also the author of Wishing for Tomorrow, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. Hilary lives with her family in Derbyshire, England.
Department. She enjoyed the work but at the same time had a burning desire to
write. After the birth of her two children, she wanted to devote more time to
bringing up her children and writing.
McKay says that one of the best things about being a writer is receiving
letters from children. She wishes that she had written to authors as a child,
but it never occurred to her to contact them. When not writing she loves walking (in and around the small village in
Derbyshire where she lives with her family), reading and having friends to stay.
Her first book, The Exiles, was published in 1991 and went on to win
The Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. It was followed by The Exiles at
Home (1993) which won the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award for the 9-11 years
category and the overall winner. Then followed The Exiles in Love
(1996). In 1994 she started on a new trilogy: Dog Friday (1994), The
Amber Cat (1995) and Dolphin Luck (1998).
In 2002 she published Saffy’s Angel which won the Whitbread
Children's Book Prize. A sequel, Indigo’s Star was published in 2004. Then followed Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose, and Caddy's World.
Hilary McKay's website
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