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Polly Crosby

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Born

The United Kingdom

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https://www.pollycrosby.com/

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Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction

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August 2012

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Polly Crosby grew up on the Suffolk coast, and now lives with her husband and son in the heart of Norfolk.

In 2018, Polly won Curtis Brown Creative’s Yesterday Scholarship, enabling her to write her debut novel, The Illustrated Child. Later the same year, she was awarded runner-up in the Bridport Prize’s Peggy Chapman Andrews Award for a First Novel, and she received the Annabel Abbs Creative Writing Scholarship for the prestigious MA at the University of East Anglia.

Polly's first book for Young Adults, This Tale is Forbidden, came out in January. Her next historical mystery, The House of Fever, is out in August.

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Average rating: 3.43 · 5,555 ratings · 1,071 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Hidden Wonders 3.27 avg rating — 2,360 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Women of Pearl Island 3.41 avg rating — 2,001 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vita and the Birds 3.99 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Fever 3.73 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Tale is Forbidden 3.44 avg rating — 249 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vulpine: an eerie YA dystopia filled with dark folklore, in which difference and sickness are forbidden 3.87 avg rating — 110 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UnLocked: A captivating collection of short stories from the D20 Authors by Philippa East (Goodreads Author), Debra Barnes (Goodreads Author), Tom Benjamin 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The picture on it was a mixture of red and gold, striped and colorful as a stick of rock,”
― Polly Crosby, The Book of Hidden Wonders

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“The edge of his dressing had come loose and was flapping in the wind. I reached up and pressed it to his head again, but not before I glimpsed the soft dent in his skull underneath.”
― Polly Crosby, The Book of Hidden Wonders

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