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Although born in Wales, Lucy Christopher grew up in Australia and has always been fascinated by its wild land. Now living in the UK again, Lucy has earned Distinction in a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. She is currently undertaking a PhD to explore the ways that Australian literature represents those wild places, particularly in its writing for young people.
Her debut novel, STOLEN, explores her thoughts about this wilderness in the story of a teenage girl who is kidnapped and taken to the Outback.
STOLEN won the Branford Boase award in July 2010, for the most promising work of children's fiction by a first time novelist, and has been shortlisted for The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, which is the most important children's book prize in Australia (announced 20th Aug 2010). STOLEN has already won the Hull Children's Book prize.
Lucy's second novel, FLYAWAY, was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.
"A vivid new voice for teens"
--Melvin Burgess
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