Driftwood Award-winning author by Cathy Cassidy (author)

Author/Illustrator

Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy’s stirring teen novels have a huge following. Their optimism, realism and empathy explain their popularity, especially with girls, and are perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

More about Cathy: “I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know!). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else,they didn’t have photocopiers back then!

I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family.

My kids are 13 and 14 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and sometimes teach art in the local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!)

I’ve been veggie for 30 years, and was vegan for 8 of them – a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, two rabbits and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy).

I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, writing has to be the best – it’s the perfect excuse to daydream, after all!”

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1. juliejules2014
   on 9 April 2014

   i love this book its so inspiring i just loved it

   5out of 5

2. tomgates27
   on 17 March 2014

   love it

   5out of 5

3. loobyloulou123
   on 9 March 2014

   Amazing I absolutely loved it,at first I wasn’t sure if I liked it but after about Page 20 I regretted not reading it before. This book was great but sad,we’ll not sad just… emotional when Kit turns on Paul I feel as if I could punch Kit, I thought that he had just lost a really cool, unique ,funny, caring soon to be friend!

   5out of 5

4. lap312i
   on 9 March 2013

   this book is good

5. Too-Amazayn
   on 9 March 2013

   It’s really sad at times but on the whole I enjoyed it

6. natashakrywald
   on 8 March 2013

   good book

   5out of 5

7. ellie-melay27
   on 4 March 2013

   i love this book because there is a certain truth about it. i recommend it and i hope you like it too. it is quite sad at times but has a happy ending. i finished it in a day

8. aeroaeromonkey
   on 1 March 2012

   This is such a sad anromantic book I love it.

   5out of 5

9. mutemath4ever
   on 1 March 2012

   This is a good book about first love, friendship and bullying. I really enjoyed reading it. It is about Hannah and how she copes when her brother starts dating her best friend. Suddenly she finds herself alone at lunch and she has no one to talk to. She ends up friends with Paul a foster kid who is currently living with Joey Hannah’s best friend’s family. Great read for ages 12+