Nina Bawden

she was a prostitute

Life

Nina Bawden grew up in Ilford in "a rather nasty housing estate that [her] mother despised". After World War II broke out, she was evacuated at the age of fourteen to Aberdare, Wales. She spent school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers.

Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Her novels include Carrie's War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch's Daughter. A number of her works have been dramatised by BBC Children's television, and many have been translated into various languages. In 2002 she was badly injured in the Potters Bar rail crash, and her husband Austen Kark was killed.

She currently is 87. She also lives in London and Nauplion, Greece.

She has written 55 books in total.

Bibliography

• Who Calls the Tune? (1953)
• The Old Flamingo (1954)
• Change Here for Babylon (1955)
• The Solitary Child (1956)
• Devil by the Sea (1958)
• Just Like a Lady (1960)
• In Honour Bound (1961)
• The Secret Passage (1963)
• Tortoise by Candlelight (1963)
• The House of Secrets (1963)
• On the Run (1964) – US title: Three on the Run
• Under the Skin (1964)
• A Little Love, A Little Learning (1965)
• The White Horse Gang (1966)
• The Witch's Daughter (1966)
• A Handful of Thieves (1967)
• A Woman of My Age (1967)
• The Grain of Truth (1969)
• The Runaway Summer (1969)
• The Birds on the Trees (1970)
• Squib (1971)
• Anna Apparent (1972)
• Carrie's War (1973)
• George Beneath a Paper Moon (1974)
• The Peppermint Pig (1975)
• Afternoon of a Good Woman (1976)
• Solitary Child (1976)
• Rebel on a Rock (1978)
• Familiar Passions (1979)
• The Robbers (1979)
• Walking Naked (1981)
• William Tell (1981)
• Kept in the Dark (1982)
• The Ice House (1983)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1983)
• The Finding (1985)
• On the Edge (1985)
• Princess Alice (1986)
• Circles of Deceit (1987)
• Henry (1988)
• Keeping Henry (1988)
• The Outside Child (1989)
• Family Money (1991)
• Humbug (1992)
• The Real Plato Jones (1993)
• In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (1994)
• Granny the Pag (1995)
• A Nice Change (1997)
• Off the Road (1998)
• The Ruffian on the Stair (2001)
• Dear Austen (2005)

Prizes and awards

• 1976 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize – The Peppermint Pig
• 1987 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize – Circles of Deceit
• 1995 Shortlisted for the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award – The Real Plato Jones
• 1996 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal – Granny the Pag
• 1993 Phoenix Award – Carrie's War
• 2010 Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize – The Birds on the Trees

External links

• Biography

Notes

• Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2002 by Jonathan Petre. "Novelist is injured and husband killed at Potters Bar"
• Daily Telegraph, 27 December 2002, by Richard Alleyne. "Potters Bar widow calls for death charges"
• Mann, Jessica (10 April 2005). "Sorry seems to be the hardest word". Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 12 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)