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Lucy was born in Wales but grew up in Australia, living in Melbourne from aged 9 until the end of her Undergraduate degree at Melbourne University. As a child, she loved camping in the bush and exploring the overgrown creek at the back of her house. Each Christmas she was hoisted back to Wales for a dose of family and cold weather. After various attempts at being an actor, a coffee maker, a waitress and a nature guide, she moved back to the UK to earn a distinction in a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. The novel she wrote for this course, The Long Flight, was picked up by The Chicken House and will be published in 2010 under a new name of FLYAWAY.
After completing the MA, Lucy worked for the RSPB, helping to establish and run the education programme at Newport Wetlands Nature Reserve. She also took on part-time work as a university lecturer at Bath Spa University, teaching on both the undergraduate and the MA creative writing courses. She is currently undertaking a PhD with Bath Spa University to explore the ways that Australian literature represents wild places, particularly in its writing for young adults.
Lucy’s debut novel, Stolen, was written as part of this PhD. It explores her thoughts about the Australian desert in the story of a teenage girl who is kidnapped and taken there. It was published in May 2009.
Lucy is now working on another teen novel. In between writing, Lucy spends her time daydreaming, emailing friends around the world, riding a grumpy chestnut mare named Topaz and helping to run a kid’s wildlife group at Newport Wetlands.
Lucy's second novel, FLYAWAY, explores a strong relationship between a father and daughter. Thirteen-year-old Isla finds it difficult to cope when her beloved Dad goes into hospital. Instead she turns her attention to a flightless swan on the lake behind the hospital, thinking that if she can save it she can somehow save her dad. With the help of Harry, a young patient in the cancer ward, she finds a way to heal the rifts emerging in her own flock. This book was published in January 2010 and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize.
After completing the MA, Lucy worked for the RSPB, helping to establish and run the education programme at Newport Wetlands Nature Reserve. She also took on part-time work as a university lecturer at Bath Spa University, teaching on both the undergraduate and the MA creative writing courses. She is currently undertaking a PhD with Bath Spa University to explore the ways that Australian literature represents wild places, particularly in its writing for young adults.
Lucy’s debut novel, Stolen, was written as part of this PhD. It explores her thoughts about the Australian desert in the story of a teenage girl who is kidnapped and taken there. It was published in May 2009.
Lucy is now working on another teen novel. In between writing, Lucy spends her time daydreaming, emailing friends around the world, riding a grumpy chestnut mare named Topaz and helping to run a kid’s wildlife group at Newport Wetlands.
Lucy's second novel, FLYAWAY, explores a strong relationship between a father and daughter. Thirteen-year-old Isla finds it difficult to cope when her beloved Dad goes into hospital. Instead she turns her attention to a flightless swan on the lake behind the hospital, thinking that if she can save it she can somehow save her dad. With the help of Harry, a young patient in the cancer ward, she finds a way to heal the rifts emerging in her own flock. This book was published in January 2010 and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize.
