Pippa read History at the University of Leeds, and then completed a PGCE at Durham University (she now also has an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University). In 1994, her first book, 'Flow', was published and, since then, Pippa has had over 90 books published, from board books, picture books and young reader books, to novels for young adults, some of which have won awards.
Best known are the picture book 'You Choose,' and the 'Winnie the Witch' storybooks which she writes under the pen name of Laura Owen. Now, Pippa likes to combine writing with teaching adults who want to write for children, and in doing school visits as an author. In 2012, she and her family moved back to Grantchester having built their own house.
A piece of advice
“Don't worry that you can't yet see a path for yourself through adult life. It will emerge, and it will be interesting and fun and challenging, and better than you dared hope.”
