Notes

Belinda Hollyer grew up in New Zealand. She was trained as a teacher, but when she moved to London she began working for a book publisher. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she held two senior management jobs--as managing director of Random House Children's Books and then as head of Philips Media's London office. In 2002, Hollyer's first novel for children, A Long Walk to Lavender Street, was published and several more followed, including River Song, "her most popular book"; along with poetry collections and history books for kids. Hollyer died in June 2015, she was 70. (Bowker Author Biography)