Michelle Magorian





Michelle Magorian

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November 06, 1947 in Portsmouth, The United Kingdom

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British children's author Michelle Magorian - author of the celebrated Goodnight, Mr. Tom (1981), which won The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - was born in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1947. She trained to be an actress, studying at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and at Marcel Marceau's L'école Internationale de Mime in Paris. While pursuing an acting career, Magorian became interested in children's books, writing her first novel for young readers (Goodnight, Mr. Tom) over the course of four and a half years.


Average rating: 4.21 · 7,440 ratings · 575 reviews · 16 distinct works
Good Night, Mr. Tom
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 6,465 ratings — published 1981 — 25 editions
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Back Home
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 424 ratings9 editions
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A Little Love Song
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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A Spoonful of Jam (The Holl...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 155 ratings3 editions
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Just Henry
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 139 ratings5 editions
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Cuckoo In The Nest
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Not a Swan
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Be Yourself
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004
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In Deep Water
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Altes Land, Neue Welt
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991
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“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
Michelle Magorian, Good Night, Mr. Tom

“I would do anything to save our love because our love is my life”
Michelle Magorian

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