Patrice Lawrence
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer and the Children’s Laureate 2026-2028. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists. In 2021 Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast of England.
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Song of Resistance
Paris, 1925. A young woman has crossed an ocean to become a star. Dorothea Walker has escaped the poverty and prejudice of St Louis, but…