Eleanor Updale

Eleanor Updale

About Author

Eleanor Updale was born in London and won a first class degree in history at Oxford University.

For many years, she was producer for BBC radio and television. Now, as well as writing the Montmorency books, she is back in the academic world, studying at the Centre For Editing Lives and Letters, at Queen Mary, University of London.

Today, Updale lives in Richmond, Surrey with her husband, Jim Naughtie - presenter of Today programme - and three children.

Updale decided to become a writer because of her love for writing. She often writes at odd times, during the night /early morning or whenever she can steal some time.

She enjoys reading different authors for different moods including Jane Austen, P.D James and Daphne Du Maurier. Her favourite children's author is Anne Fine.

Updale's own books include Montmorency, which has won the Blue Peter 'Book I couldn't Put Down' Award 2004, Montmorency on the Rocks and Montmorency and the Assassins.

These are historical novels based in late Nineteenth Century London. She developed the idea for the stories after telling her children stories at bedtime.

Update believes that children can cope with far more challenging material than they are sometimes given and also thinks that children (especially under 11s) do far too much homework these days - and that homework at weekends and in holidays should be banned!

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