Michelle Magorian

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born

November 06, 1947 in Portsmouth, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.michellemagorian.com/

genre

Children's Books

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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.

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Books by Michelle Magorian

Average rating: 4.21 · 7,440 ratings · 575 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Good Night, Mr. Tom 4.25 avg rating — 6,465 ratings — published 1981 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Back Home 4.01 avg rating — 424 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Little Love Song 4.07 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Spoonful of Jam (The Hollis Family, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 155 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Just Henry 4.05 avg rating — 139 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Cuckoo In The Nest 4.27 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Not a Swan 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Be Yourself 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	In Deep Water 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Altes Land, Neue Welt 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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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

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

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