<p>Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.<br><br> Siobhan's first novel, <i>A Swift Pure Cry,</i> won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, <i>The London Eye Mystery</i>, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan's third novel, <i>Bog Child</i>, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.<br><br> The award-winning novel <i>A Monster Calls</i> by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, <i>The Ransom of Dond</i>, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.</p>

Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK; Classification: Children?s / Teenage fiction and true stories; Weight: 292 g; Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 26

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