List Of Writers

EVANS, PENELOPE

Penelope Evans was born in Wales in 1959, and grew up in Scotland and Switzerland. She attended the University of St. Andrews where she studied Classics and then law, before practising as a criminal barrister in London. After marrying a fellow lawyer, she took a year out to have a baby and started writing her first novel. She repeated this process with her second daughter shortly afterwards, becoming intrigued with time and how her children changed rapidly as they grew, whilst she seemed to stayed the same.

Her books follow these themes of children and time travel. For example - Freezing has a three year old child who threads her way through the plot, haunting Stewart the young man trying to find her. In First Fruits, a collection of teenagers are bewildered by the lies the adults tell. Penelope describes herself as a crime writer. Densely plotted, sometimes filled with menace, her books seem to be all about crime and the adults who commit them. But the undertones are always all about children. Penelope now lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband and two daughters, where she combines writing fiction with journalism. Penelope is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
The Last Girl (Black Swan, 1995)
Freezing (Black Swan, 1997)
First Fruits (Soho Press, 2000)
A Fatal Reunion (Allison & Busby, 2005) 
My Perfect Silence (Allison & Busby, 2006)
Saving Grace (Allison & Busby, 2007)