Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist known mainly for children's literature. Her historical novel Journey to the River Sea won the Smarties Prize for 9–11 year olds and was shortlisted for the Carnegie and Whitbread prizes. Her romances, among them A Song for Summer, The Secret Countess and A Countess Below Stairs, sit alongside her children's books, and she was a finalist for the Guardian Prize when she died in 2010.