Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)