Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

"The type of serious teenage fiction that should be cherished" Independent "A dramatic and moving novel, destined to become a classic" Carousel "Clear-eyed self reflection that also characterises The Diary of Anne Frank and the Rembrandt portraits which Jacob so admires" TES "Seriously good and compulsively readable novel that spans fifty years and two interwoven stories of love, betrayal and self-discovery" Lyn Gardiner "Writing and literature at its best" The School Librarian

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

"The type of serious teenage fiction that should be cherished" Independent "A dramatic and moving novel, destined to become a classic" Carousel "Clear-eyed self reflection that also characterises The Diary of Anne Frank and the Rembrandt portraits which Jacob so admires" TES "Seriously good and compulsively readable novel that spans fifty years and two interwoven stories of love, betrayal and self-discovery" Lyn Gardiner "Writing and literature at its best" The School Librarian

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

"The type of serious teenage fiction that should be cherished" Independent "A dramatic and moving novel, destined to become a classic" Carousel "Clear-eyed self reflection that also characterises The Diary of Anne Frank and the Rembrandt portraits which Jacob so admires" TES "Seriously good and compulsively readable novel that spans fifty years and two interwoven stories of love, betrayal and self-discovery" Lyn Gardiner "Writing and literature at its best" The School Librarian