Where Snow Angels Go A delightfully wintery picture book from the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of HAMNET
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Biographical note
Maggie O'Farrell is an award-winning Irish-British author. Her books for adults have received international acclaim; she has won the Betty Trask Award for her debut novel After You'd Gone, the Somerset Maugham Award in 2005 for The Distance Between Us, the 2013 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine and her non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am reached number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her book Hamnet won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020 and was named Waterstones Book of the Year. It has sold over 700,000 copies in the English language to date, spent sixteen weeks in the top ten in 2020 and went to number 1 in paperback. Hamnet has also been translated into over 31 different countries worldwide. Her books for children include Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark which won the KPMG Children's Book Ireland Honour Award for Children's Books, and When the Stammer Came to Stay. Find her online at maggieofarrell.com
Daniela Terrazzini studied Fine Art in Milan and moved to London to study Photography at the London College of Printing. She is now an illustrator of both detailed paintings and graphic surface patterns. She has illustrated Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark and When the Stammer Came to Stay, all by Maggie O'Farrell, The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller and The Seeing Stitch by Jane Yolan. Follow her on Twitter as @DJTerrazzini and Instagram as @danielajterrazzini.
Featured in ‘The best books to read your children in 2020’
The Independent
Maggie O’Farrell’s first children’s venture, a long-read picture book, is a meditation on risk and resilience with beautiful, timeless illustrations from Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini […] The perfect winter story.
The Times & The Irish Times
<p>A longer length picture book for older children, it has a feel of a contemporary fairytale and a real sprinkle of Christmas magic, enhanced by Terrazzini’s gorgeously detailed art and lavish production values.<br /><br />Fiona Noble also featured Where Snow Angels Go in her introduction calling it one of her two ‘winter treats’ in 2020.</p>
- Fiona Noble, The Bookseller
[…] the perfect embodiment of a Christmas story with soul.
Stylist
Award-winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell’s first children’s book carries a subtle message about young people’s fears. The dream-like quality of the breathtaking illustrations enhances this emotive and powerful story.
The Daily Mail & The Scottish Daily Mail
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Maggie O'Farrell is an award-winning Irish-British author. Her books for adults have received international acclaim; she has won the Betty Trask Award for her debut novel After You'd Gone, the Somerset Maugham Award in 2005 for The Distance Between Us, the 2013 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine and her non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am reached number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her book Hamnet won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020 and was named Waterstones Book of the Year. It has sold over 700,000 copies in the English language to date, spent sixteen weeks in the top ten in 2020 and went to number 1 in paperback. Hamnet has also been translated into over 31 different countries worldwide. Her books for children include Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark which won the KPMG Children's Book Ireland Honour Award for Children's Books, and When the Stammer Came to Stay. Find her online at maggieofarrell.com
Daniela Terrazzini studied Fine Art in Milan and moved to London to study Photography at the London College of Printing. She is now an illustrator of both detailed paintings and graphic surface patterns. She has illustrated Where Snow Angels Go, The Boy Who Lost His Spark and When the Stammer Came to Stay, all by Maggie O'Farrell, The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller and The Seeing Stitch by Jane Yolan. Follow her on Twitter as @DJTerrazzini and Instagram as @danielajterrazzini.