Sally Prue

Last updated

Sally Prue
LanguageNovelist
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Longdean School
Notable works Cold Tom
Notable awards

Sally Prue is a British author known for her novel Cold Tom , which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels.

Contents

Biography

Sally Prue was adopted as a baby and brought up in Hertfordshire, England. She attended Nash Mills and Longdean Schools, and afterwards she began to work at a paper mill with the rest of her family.

Her first real job was as a clerk and following that as a time and motion person. She was forced to quit the job due to pregnancy with her first daughter. She has two daughters, Elizabeth and Rosalind. [1]

Bringing up her children, she gradually became better at writing fiction and hired an agent, Elizabeth Roy. Cold Tom, her first novel, won two awards: Branford Boase Award [2] and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Later published novels include The Devil's Toenail (2004) and Ryland's Footsteps (2004). The Truth Sayer (2007), the first in a trilogy, was nominated for the 2007 Guardian Award. [3]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

The Truth Sayer Trilogy

References

  1. ↑ "BIOGRAPHY". Sally Prue. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Branford Boase Award Previous Winners". Branford Boase Award . Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  3. ↑ Guardian Award Winners list, retrieved 13 October 2010
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.