Cecily Paterson

Cecily Anne Paterson is the author of eight novels for young teen girls, as well as an award-winning memoir for adults. Her first novel Invisible, was a semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards in 2014, and 'Charlie Franks is A-OK' won the CALEB Award in 2017. Cecily writes what she likes to call 'brave-hearted fiction', hitting some serious issues, but in an age-appropriate, clean, and helpful way, and always with a hopeful ending.

Cecily grew up in Pakistan, where she went to boarding school in the Himalayan mountains, and now lives in the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia with her husband, four children and a cuddly dog.