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Trudi Tweedie

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Contact: trudi.tweedie@outlook.com

Local authority: Aberdeenshire

Languages: English

Author type: Writer

Trudi Tweedie is the author of The Pure Heart, the first YA winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.

"[A] wonderful, twisted gothic novel … [an] evocation of a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and a cracking mystery at its core" - The Times

"Oozing atmosphere, this reads like a teenage version of recent gothic fantasies like The Binding or The Familiars: a deliciously chilling Elizabethan tale with an injection of horror" - The Observer

"[An] atmospheric Gothic chiller" - i (The Independent)

Trudi has lots of experience delivering workshops, is also available for assemblies and panels, and can tailor event content to each specific group. Workshop ideas include : Writing Gothic Fiction; Creating worlds using research: Using myths and fairy tales to build ideas for your own novel.

Trudi is also available for Skype visits.

(Photo by Judy Laing)

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

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