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Holly Smale
Sat 1 Feb 2014
Holly Smale spent two years as a teenage catwalk model before finding her smart and sassy voice in teen fiction. Her acclaimed and hugely popular novel Geek Girl, about the model misfit Harriet Manners, was the UK’s number one debut novel of 2013, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013.
Come and hear Holly talk about her geek-but-chic heroine, as well as her own journey to becoming an author.