Angel Face

by Jill Chaney

104 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1978

About the author

Jill Chaney had an unconventional childhood and a ‘sparse’ education. She lived in Egypt, the West Indies and Canada, and trained as a gardener at the Waterperry Horticultural School before moving to Hertfordshire. In 1972 she and a friend opened the original Chorleywood Bookshop, and she wrote her first book while housebound with glandular fever.

Fifteen more books for children and young adults followed. Just as Judy Blume pushed the boundaries of fiction for teenagers in the US, so Jill did in the UK. Now in her eighties, Jill relishes the possibilities that a revolution in publishing has brought for her to reach a new audience.

Her most recent published book The Story of the East Crowley Washerama is a tale of conflict between young vandals and a group of elderly war refugees.