Getting to know author Catherine Banner

Catherine Banner started her first novel when she was 14.

And when, later, she attended a talk on writing, and showed her work to an agent, he found a publisher for it. Attending Cambridge, she wrote a further two in the YA series. They were a huge success.

“That was a great opportunity, but I didn’t know if I wanted to carry on writing,” she says. “So I trained as a teacher, and worked in a secondary school in County Durham.” After a 10 year gap, Catherine decided to try writing again. But she planned a totally different book.