Julia is a mother, writer and teacher. She has been longlisted for The Mslexia Novel Prize, The Exeter Novel Prize, Penguin WriteNow and the Bath Novel Award. In 2021 she won the Blue Pencil First Novel Award. Having grown up in a house without televis …
Barrington Stoke is an award-winning, publisher, and the market leader for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers. The company was founded by Patience Thomson and Lucy Juckes, a mother and daughter-in-law team with personal experience of the way th …