![]() ![]() "It just pulled itself together," she says. The acclaimed author of several award-winning young adult novels-the first written when she was just 13-Australian native Sonya Hartnett says she wrote THURSDAY'S CHILD in a mere three months. Even I, who like to distance myself from my characters, felt protective of her." "Harper is the reason you get sucked into the characters. "I chose to narrate the story through a child because people like children, they WANT to like them," says Sonya Hartnett of THURSDAY'S CHILD, her brilliantly original coming-of-age story set during the Great Depression. Her novels have been published traditionally as young adult fiction, but her writing often crosses the divide and is also enjoyed by adults. ![]() Her books have also been published in Europe and North America. She wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen, and had it published at fifteen. Redfern) is, or was, something of an Australian child prodigy author. Sonya Hartnett (also works under the pseudonym Cameron S. ![]()
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