BLACK HISTORY MONTH - PATRICE LAWRENCE - Join Award Winning Teen author for a Book Reading, Signing, Q&A, TODAY 1pm til 2.30pm. Book your FREE Tickets on Eventbrite here: buff.ly/2OwMpkw @LawrencePatrice @BhmUK #BlackHistoryMonth
A talk by Patrice Lawrence – Patrice is an award-winning writer, whose debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and many regional awards. Indigo Donut, her second book, was shortlisted for the Bookseller YA Prize, was Book of the Week in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Observer, and was one of The Times’ top children’s books in 2017. Both books have been nominated for the Carnegie Award.
Her exciting new novel, Rose, Interrupted, was published by Hodder in July this year. Patrice was born in Brighton, brought up in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives in East London with her daughter, partner and Stormageddon, the tabby.
