Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh (born 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her novels for children span all ages and include; Babylon, Birdy and the Ghosties, The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Goldengrove, Grace, Hengest's tale, A Parcel of Patterns, and Thomas and the Tinners. Her adult novels include Lapsing about Catholic university students, A School for Lovers, and The Serpentine Cave based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives. Knowledge of Angels, a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. She is the author of 2 detective stories featuring Imogen Quy; The Wyndham Case, and A Piece of Justice. In 1998 she won acclaim for her seamless completion of Dorothy L. Sayers unfinished novel Thrones, Dominations, and she has since completed another Lord Peter Wimsey novel, A Presumption of Death.
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