Carmen Reid

Carmen Reid

About Author

Carmen was born and brought up in a chilly and windy corner of Scotland in the depths of the countryside.
This may explain her lifelong phobia of cows and abiding interest in cities, department stores, books, the cinema and newspapers.


Carmen did once study English Literature at University College London, but, ignoring everything shed learned, she spent most of her 20s working as a local, regional and then national newspaper reporter.
Knowing deep down that she was supposed to be an author not a journo, she left her day job to have a baby and write her first novel. (Hey, and just four sleepless, penniless years later it was published!)
Although there is a corner of her heart that will always belong to London (property developers welcome) she now lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband, Thomas, and two children, Sam and Claudie, plus Jimmy the (lunatic) Jack Russell and Clive, Orangey and Gorcha, the fish.


Fortunately her hobbies are cooking, cleaning, arguing about whose turn it is to walk the dog, clean the fish tank, take out the rubbish, do the laundry... and so on.


Carmen has written six novels for adults, and this July publishes her first novel for 10-13 year olds Secret at St Judes: New Girl, A raucous, hilarious, heartwarming tale of modern boarding school life. Carmen went to boarding school herself so has plenty of real life experience and stories that have made their way in to St Judes!

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www.carmenreid.com

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