![]() ![]() ![]() More recent novels include The Photograph (2003) and Making it Up (2005). Two of her novels written for adults have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and she won it in 1987 with Moon Tiger. Her many books written for children include Astercote (1970), The Whispering Knights (1971), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973), which won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time (1976), which won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. She came to England in 1945, went to school in Sussex, and read Modern History at St Ann’s College, Oxford. Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up there. ![]() Ghost stories are fun, and a great way to start writing a story my only advice there is to give the ghost a strong character, make them as much a personality as anyone else in the story. That way, without you even realising it, you will have learned how to use language, words, you will have seen how a story develops – begins, gains pace, ends. ![]() My only advice for anyone wanting to write – trying to write – is in fact to read. Today our exclusive writing advice comes from the esteemed, award-winning author Penelope Lively. To help inspire all the writers taking part in NaNoWriMo this November, a selection of Farshore authors share their writing tips. ![]()
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