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From acclaimed author Hilary McKay comes The Time of Green Magic: a beautiful, spellbinding novel about new families, a magical old house and a mysterious cat ...

About the Author

Hilary McKay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire where she grew up the eldest of four girls in a family devoted to books. She writes novels for children, which are popular for their lively sense of humour, and often involve eccentric families. Her first book, The Exiles, about a family called the Conroys who have an unusual family life, was published in 1991. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was followed by further books in the series. Saffron Coomber is an English actress and voiceover artist. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2018 with a BA in Acting, and was awarded the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award in the same year. Saffron is probably known best for playing Alexa on EastEnders, and Sapphire Fox in The Tracy Beaker Survival Files and Tracy Beaker Returns. She has also lent her voice to numerous radio plays and audiobooks, including Yasmin Rahman's All the Things We Never Said and The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay.

Reviews

'Hilary McKay is one of the great writers of children’s fiction.'
*The Independent*

'McKay couples warmth and grace with wry humour like nobody else out there.'
*The Guardian*