Fans loved seeing her getting smarter over the course of the novel, as she learns to talk with fairies and outsmart the goblins. Tanya is a very likable heroine and she makes it easy to feel for her the whole way through. The sinister history of the manor is just about to repeat itself. After disturbing some intruder in the night, it is revealed that somebody else shares this ability with Tanya. Tanya has her own secret: she can see fairies. Together, Fabian and Tanya decide they will find out the truth. His grandpa was the last person that saw her alive, and has been living under suspicion since. The caretaker’s son, Fabian, has been tormented by the girl’s going missing. A girl disappeared in the woods nearby fifty years back, it is a girl that grandma refuses to speak of. As Tanya is visiting her grandma’s house, an ancient picture leads her to an unsolved mystery. “13 Treasures” is the first novel in the “Thirteen Treasures” series and was released in the year 2009. Her books are for children and young adult audiences. Michelle’s debut novel, called “13 Treasures”, was released in the year 2009. “Thirteen Treasures” won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Before getting published, she got a lot of rejection notices.Īfter she studied illustration at Staffordshire University, she worked in an art gallery, as a barmaid, a children’s bookseller, and an assistant editor. It was not until she left, however, that she began to work on the book seriously. She wrote the first few chapters of “Thirteen Treasures” during her first year of university.

When she was nineteen, she moved to Stafford in order to study illustration. She wrote three chapters of it, but never got around to finishing it. Michelle started writing short stories at the age of fourteen, and by the time she left school, it was her goal to become an illustrator and author.Īt the age of fourteen, she first tried writing a novel. In addition to reading to her, they made up stories of their own and drew some pictures to go with them. Thanks to her two older sisters, stories have been a big part of her life. She lives with her partner in Oxfordshire. Michelle is originally from Grays in Essex, and is a keen illustrator along with being a writer. She is a former bookseller at Ottakars/Waterstones in Stafford.

Michelle Marie Harrison was born December 21, 1979, and is an editorial assistant working in children’s publishing.

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