Andrew Norriss,
Jessica's Ghost
David Fickling Books, 2015
ISBN 9781910200339
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Andrew Norriss comes from Scotland. He was christened by a bishop who was a keen fisherman. When he was handed to him at the font, he held him for a moment and said ‘Eight and a half pounds’. He was quite right!
He now lives in a Hampshire village. Some people like living in big towns but he is a village person. He likes walking down to the shop (there’s only one) and saying good morning to everyone. Do that in a town and they give you very funny looks.
Andrew has written many books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1997 for his book Aquila followed by the Aquila TV series for BBC. He also adapted his books Bernard's Watch and Matt's Million for ITV as well as creating and co-writing the successful sit-com The Brittas Empire.
When Francis meets a ghost on the school playing field, the ghost is almost as surprised as he is. Jessica has been dead for over a year, but no one has been able to see or hear her before. No one. Apart from the fact that she's dead, Jessica seems a perfectly ordinary girl, but the mystery remains - why is Francis the only one who can see her? And why can't she remember how she died?
At school Andrew didn’t like the lessons, the teachers, and most of the other children... It was a long time before he realized this probably had more to do with him than the school.
When Andrew was thirty five years old he went to a hypnotist to give up smoking. While very relaxed, the hypnotist asked Andrew what he really wanted to do in life. He said he wanted to be a writer (which came as something of a surprise) so he went away and did it. Well, it wasn’t quite that simple, but nearly...
For more information visit www.andrewnorriss.co.uk
Andrew does not have a Twitter feed but his wife, Jane does: @thewriterswife
She passes on to him any tweets #AndrewNorriss!
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