Author Visit from Anne Cassidy

Anne is an ex-English teacher who has become a prize winning author and she held the girls spell -bound as she read from a selection of her work, and discussed how she arrived at her plots, settings and characterisation. The girls were much impressed that some of Anne's ex-pupils figured in her writing – not always favourably!

As well as entertaining over 120 Year 8s, Anne also signed copies of her books over lunchtime – and a long queue of other year groups were all able to meet and talk to her. The girls gave Anne some chocolates and flowers at the end of a very successful day in JAGS Book Week. After Tuesday's senior school lunchtime sale by Village Books, everyone should have gone home very satisfied with their new reading.