Frances Mary Hendry
During twenty years teaching English Frances Hendry says she learned the bits
of books that young people skip, and avoids writing them. She won the SAC Literary
Award for her first two books. Her first book for OUP, Chandra,
won the Writer's Guild Award and the Lancashire Children's Book Award.
Frances' latest release Chains is a wonderful
book, set in the Eighteenth Century, about a girl who finds herself caught up
in an unusual family business: slave trading.
Frances' interests are history (until men started to wear trousers), gardening,
embroidery, amateur dramatics (in her pantos she usually plays a dragon or a
monster; typecasting...she says), and cursing her wordprocessor. She lives in
Nairn, in Scotland, where several of her books are set.