Heart Shaped - Readings

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Written with sensitivity, humour and a lightness of touch, HEART-SHAPED is a companion to Siobhan Parkinson s highly-acclaimed novel, BRUISED - for fans of Meg Rosoff, Aidan Chambers and David Levithan. Annie makes a startling discovery one day - and everything changes. She fears for the safety of her boyfriend Jonno, who has vanished, knowing he is in desperate trouble. Feeling alone, she clings to her dad, her only parent, but he can t fill in all the gaps in the puzzle that is Annie s life. Nor can her best friend. To do that, Annie has to look into her past and understand who her mother was, what happened to her and why. So the truth behind Jonno s disappearance - which is the story in BRUISED - becomes a mirror for what s happening in Annie s own life. The reader is desperate for him to come back, so that Annie can fully fit the pieces of her existence back together.

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I was born in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, more years ago than you need to know. When I was a child, I lived in Loughrea in CountyGalway (and I still have lots of relations there), Galway city and Letterkenny in County Donegal. And then I came back to Dublin, to Trinity College, and (apart from a year spent in Munich), I have lived in Dublin ever since. I like it here. I like going away, but I love coming home.

I ve been writing books for more years than you have been alive (if you are one of my typical readers, ie under the age of about fourteen), and there are quite a lot of them by now. I love writing for kids, because kids are the BEST readers in the world. This is a scientific fact. Sometimes I also write for adults, but only sometimes.

As well as writing, I also translate children s books (from German). That s why some of the books on my author page are by other people -- I translated them, but somebody else wrote them (in German). I also publish children s books (ones written by other people, I mean), in my teeny tiny publishing company, Little Island Books, which lives in what used to be my dining room. (I have a very short commute in the mornings.)

I am visually impaired, which means I don t see very well and I can t read books or newspapers. (I can read on the computer, because I can make the words very big.) This is not a great thing for a writer, because of course writers need to read a lot. So mostly I read ebooks or listen to audiobooks. I LOVE audiobooks. (Though they do tend to put me to sleep; this can be a problem, especially if you are on the bus. I am often on the bus.)

I think that s enough about me.

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