Annabel Pitcher visits the Library May 18 th 2015

Thanks to Annabel for being such a fantastic guest. 

 Best known to our Year 8 students as the writer of their class reader My sister lives on the mantelpiece (MSLOTM),the award winning writer Annabel Pitcher came to talk to students both from Arthur Terry and our partner schools: Coleshill,  Brookvale and Four Oaks. Students were intrigued to discover that her best selling book MSLOTM was written on boats and trains and in small remote villages as Annabel travelled through South America during a gap year after university. An opportunity to question Annabel about the characters and ideas in the novel revealed that the initial idea for the novel came after she had watched a film about 9/11 and the families of those who had died in the plane targeting the Pentagon. Finally, before she left we were all thrilled to hear  about her new novel involving a goldfish!