Barbara Catchpole

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Barbara Catchpole was a teacher for over thirty years. She taught English, Special Needs and more or less anything else that was left over at the end of the timetabling. She has three sons of whom she is unbearably proud. Her main interest is in writing books for young people that are set in the real world and presenting characters that could be real teenagers. She tries to make them funny most of the time with just a little sadness thrown in because life's like that. She believes that adults can communicate really well with teenagers if the adult just makes a superhuman effort.

Barbara is also addicted to Jane Austen and her latest book is “Bennets and Bonnets: a rethink of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.” Pride and Prejudice with all the secret thoughts of the characters written in between the polite conversation. Except, of course,Lydia who is not thinking at all.