Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy drew on experience in art, magazines, and teaching as she developed her career in children's fiction. She studied illustration, served as fiction editor for Jackie magazine, taught art, and wrote an advice column before concentrating on books. Scarlett follows a twelve-year-old London girl sent to live with her father and his family in Ireland after repeated trouble at school. Viking published the novel in 2006, and it received the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books. Cassidy's other fiction includes Dizzy, Indigo Blue, the Chocolate Box Girls sequence, and the Lost and Found books.