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Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis in 1962, through the eyes of three children. The bestselling novelist, celebrated for her historical fiction for children, was once told by poet Ted Hughes that her writing was 'dangerous', but it took Emma Carroll 20 years of English teaching and a life-changing cancer diagnosis to feel brave enough to give her dream of being an author a try.
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Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Week at World's End, revisits the week of the Cuban Crisis in 1962, through the eyes of three children. The bestselling novelist, celebrated for her historical fiction for children, was once told by poet Ted Hughes that her writing was 'dangerous', but it took Emma Carroll 20 years of English teaching and a life-changing cancer diagnosis to feel brave enough to give her dream of being an author a try. She has since been nominated for and is the winner of numerous national, regional and schools awards - including the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award, Branford Boase, CILIP Carnegie Medal, Young Quills, Teach Primary and the Waterstones Book Prize.
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