Cathy Cassidy is one of the UK’s top selling children’s authors and has twice won the prestigious ‘Queen of Teen’ award. Cathy understands teenagers and her Chocolate Box Girls series taps straight into the dramas and dreams of teenage girls with great insight, wit and sensitivity.

About The Author

“I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else; they didn’t have photocopiers back then!”

Cathy has been writing fabulous stories ever since. Her books have sold over one million copies in the UK alone. She is the bestselling author of Dizzy, Driftwood, Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Sundae Girl, Lucky Star, Gingersnaps and Angel Cake. The Chocolate Box Girls is a sumptuous series starring sassy sisters, super-cool boys and one of Cathy’s biggest loves – chocolate.

Cathy went to Art College in Liverpool then got a job as fiction editor on Jackie magazine. She taught art in a Coventry secondary school for a few years before moving to Scotland with her husband to start a family. She continued to be an art teacher in the wilds of west Scotland for several years until she became a full-time writer. She has two children and together with her husband Liam they live in a cottage in the Galloway hills in Scotland with sheep and cows for neighbours.

Suggested book:

Chocolate Box Girls: Marshmallow Skye

Skye and Summer are identical twins but Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? And will Skye ever step out of Summer’s shadow and find her own chance to shine?

Age – 9-11