L.P. Hansen

L P Hansen tackles 'hot topics in her three YA books. The Fire Keeper’s Girls (2018) envisages a community able to embrace the gifts that every girl brings with her at birth … a real community, not fantasy. Troubled teenagers Gemma and Alice encounter a mysterious web of real-life women and turn their lives around. Brief biographies of 25 brilliant women from 25 countries are included.

The book succeeds Bad Oil and the Animals (2016), teenage friends aiming a spotlight at illegal palm oil production and animal welfare in New Zealand and elsewhere. An Unexpected Hero (2014), introduces New Zealand’s WW1 Pacifist Archie Baxter to young readers. Socks, a story on homelessness, won the author the Jack Lasenby Senior Award for children’s writing in New Zealand (2012). Contact her through info@onepotopress.com