Jenny Valentine

Jenny Valentine (born 1970) is an English children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, ''Finding Violet Park'' (HarperCollins, 2007), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Valentine lives in Glasbury-on-Wye, Wales with her husband singer/songwriter Alex Valentine, with whom she runs a health food shop in nearby Hay-on-Wye. Provided by Wikipedia