After an early career as a teacher and freelance feature-writer for major Scottish newspapers, Julie Bertagna established a reputation as an author of powerful and original fiction for young people. Exodus, her first novel for Macmillan, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award and won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award and the Angus Award. The Opposite of Chocolate was shortlisted for the Book Trust Teenage Prize 2004. Julie lives in Glasgow with her husband and daughter.
Author's Website: https://www.juliebertagna.com/
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