Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Jenny Valentine

Born: 1970 (age 55)
Bio: Jenny Valentine is a British children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, Finding Violet Park, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.
Known for:
- Finding Violet Park (2007)
- Broken Soup (2009)
- Fire Colour One (2015)
- The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight (2010)
- The Ant Colony (2009)