What's the hook? Two different perspectives provide interesting contrast in the exploration of issues of adoption and identity. What are the themes? Families, generations and identity. Teaching points? Provides numerous opportunities for speaking and listening activities and creative writing.
Born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Berlie Doherty is the youngest of three children. She has been a social worker, a journalist, a teacher, and, for the past fifteen years, a writer.
Berlie has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, for ‘Grannie was a Buffer Girl’ in 1987 and for ‘Dear Nobody’ in 1992. She lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.