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Michelle Magorian

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Michelle Magorian


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in Portsmouth, The United Kingdom
November 06, 1947

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British children's author Michelle Magorian - author of the celebrated Goodnight, Mr. Tom (1981), which won The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - was born in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1947. She trained to be an actress, studying at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and at Marcel Marceau's L'école Internationale de Mime in Paris. While pursuing an acting career, Magorian became interested in children's books, writing her first novel for young readers (Goodnight, Mr. Tom) over the course of four and a half years. ...more

Average rating: 4.28 · 58,153 ratings · 3,393 reviews · 24 distinct worksSimilar authors
Good Night, Mr. Tom

4.31 avg rating — 50,467 ratings — published 1981 — 92 editions
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Back Home

4.16 avg rating — 2,564 ratings — published 1984 — 29 editions
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A Little Love Song

4.21 avg rating — 1,781 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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Just Henry

4.09 avg rating — 848 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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A Spoonful of Jam

3.92 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Cuckoo in the Nest

4.10 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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Impossible!

4.01 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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In Deep Water

3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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The Front Room

2.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Be Yourself

3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
Michelle Magorian, Good Night, Mr. Tom

“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom

“I would do anything to save our love because our love is my life”
Michelle Magorian

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