Eva Ibbotson
Eva Ibbotson (née Wiesner) was an Austrian-born British novelist renowned for her children's literature, including the award-winning historical novel Journey to the River Sea, which won the Smarties Prize in 2001. Born in Vienna in 1925 to a physiologist father and writer mother, she fled to England with her family as the Nazis rose to power, later studying physiology before turning to writing in the 1960s after raising her family. She authored over twenty imaginative and humorous books for children and young adults, as well as adult romances, until her death in 2010.
Children's literature
Young adult fiction
Romance
The Abominables
The Abominables
The Star of Kazan
Journey to the River Sea
Island of the Aunts
Dial-a-Ghost
The Star of Kazan
A Countess Below Stairs
The Morning Gift
One Dog and His Boy
A Song for Summer
Not Just a Witch
A Company of Swans
The Abominables
Which Witch?
The Dragonfly Pool
The Reluctant Heiress
The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
The Ogre of Oglefort
One Dog and His Boy
The Haunting of Granite Falls
The Dragonfly Pool
The Ogre of Oglefort