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Northumberland (Nov 6th)
As a child
Nicola Morgan was born in a boys-only boarding school, and later attended a boys-only school until she was eleven years old. Consequently, she was brilliant at making bows and arrows, climbing trees and winning conker matches - none of which have been of any use to her whatsoever in later life. She loved writing though. She wrote her first ever actual story aged fourteen - in a public exam. She loved reading too, and spent most of holidays curled up with a book.
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| Blame My Brain Walker Books ISBN:0744583683 |
Leaving Home Survival Guide Walker Books ISBN:1844287718 |
Sleepwalking Hodder Children's Books ISBN:0340877332 |
As an adult
Nicola Morgan first knew she wanted to write for a living when she was at university. Before that, she had thought that all writers were dead. She studied classics and philosophy at Cambridge. "That doesn't sound very useful," she says, "but it was the most useful grounding for being a writer, because it taught me to look very closely at language and meaning." She became an English teacher, later specializing in reading/writing difficulties. She still runs the Child Literary Centre website. Her first novel was published after twenty-one years of rejections.