Jenny Valentine





Jenny Valentine

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born
The United Kingdom
gender
female

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About this author

Jenny Valentine moved house every two years when she was growing up. She has just moved house again, probably not for the last time. She worked in a wholefood shop in Primrose Hill for fifteen years where she met many extraordinary people and sold more organic loaves than there are words in her first novel. She has also worked as a teaching assistant and a jewellery maker. She studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College, which almost put her off reading but not quite.
Jenny is married to a singer/songwriter and has two children.

In 2007, Jenny won the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction with her debut novel FINDING VIOLET PARK.


Average rating: 3.68 · 3,033 ratings · 547 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
Broken Soup
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,312 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions
Me, the Missing, and the Dead
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions
Double
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
The Ant Colony
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
Iggy & Me
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Iggy and Me (2) - Iggy and ...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
Tio stationer
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009
Iggy & Me on Holiday
by
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Iggy and Me and the Baby
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Mates, Dates / Ten Stations
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3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009
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“I smiled back and I thought
how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.”
Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup

“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”
Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup

“Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.”
Jenny Valentine

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