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Jenny Valentine


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Young Adult, Children's Books


Jenny Valentine moved house every two years when she was growing up. She has just moved house again, probably not for the last time. She worked in a wholefood shop in Primrose Hill for fifteen years where she met many extraordinary people and sold more organic loaves than there are words in her first novel. She has also worked as a teaching assistant and a jewellery maker. She studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College, which almost put her off reading but not quite.
Jenny is married to a singer/songwriter and has two children.

In 2007, Jenny won the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction with her debut novel FINDING VIOLET PARK. ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 12,637 ratings · 1,931 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors
Broken Soup
3.78 avg rating — 3,291 ratings — published 2008 — 34 editions
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Me, the Missing, and the Dead
3.56 avg rating — 2,631 ratings — published 2007 — 45 editions
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Double
3.67 avg rating — 2,290 ratings — published 2010 — 29 editions
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Fire Colour One
3.64 avg rating — 1,796 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions
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The Ant Colony
3.62 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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Us in the Before and After
4.01 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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Hello Now
2.89 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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A girl called Joy
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Iggy & Me
4.04 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Wij, ervoor en erna
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Series by Jenny Valentine

Iggy & Me Iggy and Me and The Happy B... Iggy & Me on Holiday Iggy and Me and the Baby
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Quotes by Jenny Valentine  (?)
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“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”
― Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
tags: everything, free, gift, lost, present
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“I smiled back and I thought
how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.”
― Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
tags: goodness, invisible, see, smile, world
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“Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.”
― Jenny Valentine
tags: better, everything, fine, idiot, next, turn
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