List Of Writers

BARROW, SUE

8 Clos Brynderi, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, CF14 6NN
Tel: 029 2069 1886/ 07960 862302
Email: rubysue52@hotmail.com

Sue Barrow is a children’s author published by Gomer. Her debut novel, Keeping Secrets, was published in 2006. She was born and brought up in Cardiff where she now lives with her husband and the youngest two of her five children. She is currently working on her second novel for teenagers, The Other Elisabeth which deals with the tensions between two half–sisters who, having never met or known of one another’s existence, are thrown together one summer.

Reviews:
With respect to Keeping Secrets (Gomer 2006):

"…Sue Barrow has succeeded in writing a gem of a book about growing up, about finding out who you are, about your past and about your future. It is told sympathetically and deals well with the gamut of emotions and feelings that people go through as they realise that they are changing and adapting to their new selves…"
From www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council

Selected Publications:
Keeping Secrets (Gomer, 2006)


Keeping Secrets (Gomer, 2006)

At five feet eleven, and with frizzy ginger curls, Ceri Keeping is the tallest girl in her year group. She has great plans for her sixteenth birthday, but it seems that nothing will go right. It starts badly when her brothers arrange a cheesy phone call with breakfast-show host Jamie Carroll. It doesn’t get better when Dad announces that Ceri’s birthday meal at Giuseppi’s has to be postponed. To cap it all, the birthday card she really longs for - the one she has never received - is missing once again this year.

Ceri is adopted although she has never seen her adoption papers. Now she is determined to find her real mother - even if it means unearthing long-kept family secrets.

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Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from/ discussion of own work
2. Talks/ schools sessions on novel writing skills and the editing/ publishing process
3. Creative writing workshops

AGE RANGE: 11–18 years