The following is an excerpt from Off the Record edited by John Metcalf (Biblioasis, December 2023) I’d like to say a few words about my writing for children, which I began around the time I was writing the stories in Pleased to Meet You. This is the other half of my writing career. There’s only
Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door is a funny and thought-provoking middle-grade novel about the power of stories – especially the ones we tell ourselves. Real life isn’t a fairy tale for Andie Gladman. The small-town Meaford tween doesn’t have many friends and endures, with exasperation, the school bully’s verbal slings and arrows. When a