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Pip Granger


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Pip Granger was born in Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1947. Her first job was with the City of Westminster, teaching children who had been excluded from school because of emotional and health problems, and she worked as a literacy and special needs teacher in Stoke Newington and Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s. After quitting teaching, she wrote for a while on non-fiction partworks, including My Garden and My Child.

Pip began to write fiction only in the 1990s. Her older brother, Peter, was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she wanted to memorialise their extraordinary childhood. The resulting book, Not All Tarts are Apple, was the unanimous winner of the first Harry Bowling Prize for London writing in 2000, and was published in 2002. A sequel, The W ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 919 ratings · 126 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Not All Tarts Are Apple
3.85 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions
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The Widow Ginger
4.07 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
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Trouble In Paradise
4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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No Peace for the Wicked
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Alone
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Up West: Voices from the St...
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“Aunt Maggie turned a gaze on her that would have shrivelled the English Channel to a puddle. She didn't actually say, "Shut yer gob." She didn't have to. Miss Giles shut her gob.”
― Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple
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“She had dead straight, greying hair the she yanked sideways and anchored with enough ironmongery to sink a small ship.”
― Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple
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“Her voice was loud, penetrating and very, very posh. You know the expression "speaks with a plum in her mouth"? Well, this one spoke with the whole tree.”
― Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple
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