Anne Fine is the Children's Laureate and the awards she has won for her fiction include two Carnegie Medals, the Guardian Fiction Prize, two Whitbread Prizes and a Smarties Prize.

...a fable about embarrassment that made me laugh aloud Independent

Anne Fine read politics and history at Warwick University. Her first novel was published in 1975; now she writes for both adults and children and is one of the UK's most successful writers. Her awards include two Carnegie Medals, the Guardian Fiction Prize, two Whitbread Prizes and a Smarties Prize. GOGGLE-EYES was serialised on TV and MADAME DOUBTFIRE became a Hollywood hit movie. Anne lives in County Durham.