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www.julie-hearn.com
Julie started her working life as a journalist. She wrote for a daily tabloid newspaper in Australia before returning to England and working as a features editor and ‘mother and baby’ columnist. After her daughter Tilly was born, she started to train as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford, where she was taught by Philip Pullman, but switched to English when she realised teaching wasn't for her.
She then went on to complete a Masters in Women's Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford University; where an idea for a thesis became the basis for her first novel, Follow Me Down. The Merrybegot, her second novel, was shortlisted for the 2005 Guardian Children’s Book Prize. The first of a trilogy, Ivy arrived to critical acclaim shortly after and in September this year the second title, Hazel will be published. Julie lives in Abingdon.
Recommended Reads
Hazel
Oxford University Press
978-0192792143
Ivy
Oxford University Press
978-0192754318
The Merrybegot
Oxford University Press
978-0192791573
Publisher
Oxford University Press