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L. S. Matthews is the pen name of Laura Dron, a British children's author of several critically acclaimed novels.
Her first novel, Fish (2003), won the Fidler Award and was also highly commended for the Branford Boase Award and nominated for a Carnegie Medal. Her other novels are The Outcasts (2004), A Dog For Life (2006), Lexi (2007) and After the Flood (2008). Matthews has written two short SEN titles, Deadly Night and The Game, which were both published in 2006.
L. S. Matthews writes full-time in England, where she lives with her husband and two children.
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