Debut author scoops Guardian children's fiction prize
Jenny Valentine: no intention of giving up her day job.
A wholefood shop owner from Wales has won the 40th Guardian Children's fiction prize with her first novel.
Jenny Valentine, 37, scooped the £1,500 prize with Finding Violet Park, the story of a "friendship" forged beyond the grave between a teenage boy and the elderly woman whose ashes he discovers abandoned in a taxi office.
Valentine, who recently took over a wholefood shop in Hay-on-Wye and has no intention of giving up her day job, has also been selected for the Richard and Judy Best Kids Books Ever programme, to be screened on October 28.
A wholefood shop owner from Wales has won the 40th Guardian Children's fiction prize with her first novel.
Jenny Valentine, 37, scooped the £1,500 prize with Finding Violet Park, the story of a "friendship" forged beyond the grave between a teenage boy and the elderly woman whose ashes he discovers abandoned in a taxi office.
Valentine, who recently took over a wholefood shop in Hay-on-Wye and has no intention of giving up her day job, has also been selected for the Richard and Judy Best Kids Books Ever programme, to be screened on October 28.
To read rest of story from The Guardian 4 October link here.
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