Gwyneth Rees
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Gwyneth Rees | |
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| Born | 10 May 1968 Leicester, England |
| Occupation | psychiatrist, children's author |
| Education | Medical degree from Glasgow University |
| Genre | children's literature, fantasy |
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Gwyneth Rees (born 10 May 1968) is a British author of children's books. Her novel The Mum Hunt won the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers in 2019, and another, My Mum's from Planet Pluto, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in the same year. Her other popular books for younger children include the Fairy Dust series, the first of which was an Ottakar's Book of the Month choice, and the Mermaid Magic trilogy.
Gwyneth Rees was born in Leicester in 1968.[1] She is half Welsh and half English, and grew up in Scotland after her family moved to Glasgow when she was six. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, has worked in London as a consultant child psychiatrist, but now writes full-time.[2]
She wrote her first book when she was ten, inspired by Enid Blyton, but the first to be published was Something Secret in 2001.[3]
