Jane Badger Books
Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson is a prize winning children’s author, who has won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year in 2005 and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2005 for The New Policeman. She has written just the one book with a horsy background: and it is a very good, though bleak, read. It is not, however, so bleak that you regret you ever read it: I want to read it again to appreciate the shifts and changes in Michael’s life.
Kate Thompson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire in 1956, and spent her childhood in Leamington Spa and Worcester. The fascination of having two parents active in the peace and anti-nuclear movements wasn’t enough to outweigh the attraction of the local stables, and she spent much of her time there. When she left school, she worked with racehorses in the UK and America, but eventually found that she wanted the interaction with people the horses had vanquished, and started to take a law degree. This wasn’t for her, and she went travelling before moving to Ireland with her partner. She joined the North Clare Writers’ Circle, and in 1992 published her first book, a collection of poems. Since then she has written several novels for children and adults.
Finding the books: easy to find as both a hardback and paperback.
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Sources:
Kate Thompson’s website
Kate Thompson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire in 1956, and spent her childhood in Leamington Spa and Worcester. The fascination of having two parents active in the peace and anti-
Finding the books: easy to find as both a hardback and paperback.
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Sources:
Kate Thompson’s website
Annan Water
Bodley Head, London, 2004, 181 pp.
Reprinted 2005, paperback.
Michael is the son of horse dealer parents: added to the pressures of constantly
preparing horses for sale is
the rarely mentioned death of his sister, to say nothing
of his schoolwork. The girl Annie seems to be the only
glimmer of light on the horizon.
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