Sally Prue
Sally Prue | |
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| Language | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Longdean School |
| Notable works | Cold Tom |
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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.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]Standalone novels
[edit]- Cold Tom (2002)
- The Devil's Toenail (2002)
- Ryland's Footsteps (2003)
- Goldkeeper (2004)
- The Path of Finn McCool (2004)
- James and the Alien Experiment (2005)
- Wheels of War (2009)
- Ice Maiden (2011)
- Class Six and the Nits of Doom (2014)
The Truth Sayer Trilogy
[edit]- The Truth Sayer (2007)
- March of the Owlmen (2008)
- Plague of Mondays (2009)
References
[edit]- ^ "BIOGRAPHY". Sally Prue. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ "Branford Boase Award Previous Winners". Branford Boase Award. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ Guardian Award Winners list, retrieved 13 October 2010
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