The award winning UK author Patrice Lawrence will visit Mount Anville on Monday, 14 October to speak to TY students about her books and creative writing.
Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and many regional awards.
Indigo Donut, her second book, was shortlisted for the Bookseller YA Prize, was Book of the Week in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Observer, and was one of The Times' top children's books in 2017. Both books have been nominated for the Carnegie Award.
Her latest book Rose, Interrupted has just been published.