Annabel Pitcher

1982–

Annabel Pitcher is an English writer for young readers, born in 1982 in a West Yorkshire village. She studied English literature at Oxford and trained as a teacher, teaching English at Wakefield Girls’ High School before her first book appeared. Her debut novel, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (2011), about a family broken by a terrorist attack, received a Betty Trask Award in 2012 and won the Branford Boase Award; it was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her second novel, Ketchup Clouds, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and an Edgar Award. Silence is Goldfish followed in 2015.

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