Polly Crosby

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Polly Crosby

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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 · 5,287 ratings · 1,043 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Book of Hidden Wonders

3.27 avg rating — 2,314 ratings — published 2020 — 22 editions
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The Women of Pearl Island

3.42 avg rating — 1,928 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions
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Vita and the Birds

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The House of Fever

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This Tale is Forbidden

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The Vulpine: an eerie YA dy...

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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

“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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