Books by Michelle Magorian
Michelle was born in 1947 in Portsmouth, Hampshire of a Welsh mother and Irish father with an Armenian Surname. Michelle spent her toddler years in Singapore and two-and-a-half years in Australia. In between times, up to the age of eighteen, she lived in Portsmouth.
Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom
A Little Love Song
Cuckoo in the Nest
A Spoonful of Jam
Just Henry
Impossible!
In at the Deep End
The Front Room
She was educated at Kilbreda college, Mentone (Victoria, Australia) and the Covent of the Cross, Waterlooville, Hampshire. Michelle trained for the theatre at The Rose Bruford College of speech and drama in Kent from 1968 to 1969. It was during those years that she started writing regularly.
From 1969-1970 she was a mime student at Marcel Marceau's L'Ecole International de Mime in Paris. Since then Michelle has worked in theatre, television and films and has an established reputation as a comedienne, performing in plays and musicals. Michelle also toured with her one-woman mime show in Italy and England.
Michelle's first novel Goodnight Mister Tom grew out of two short stories. She wrote the book in between acting jobs and on Sunday when she was working in the theatre. Goodnight Mister Tom was first published in the UK in 1981. It has won numerous awards including The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. The book has sold in excess of 1.2 million copies in the UK alone and has been published in Denmark, USA, Japan, Holland, Sweden, Finland, France and Germany. The 1998 BAFTA award-winning TV film of the book starring John Thaw attracted 14 million viewers.
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