Jan Michael
JAN MICHAEL was born in her grandparents’ house on the Yorkshire moors. At age six she moved with her parents to the Seychelles, where, by her own admission, she ran wild. When she was eleven she was sent to boarding school in Wales, returning once a year to see her parents, who moved from the Seychelles to Lesotho in southern Africa, and then to Pakistan.
She studied history at Bristol University and worked in London as an editor before moving to Holland. Her office in Amsterdam is an old tobacconist’s shop dating from the 1880s.
Jan has written five novels and five children’s books, some of which have been translated into Dutch, Danish, Italian and German. Just Joshua won the Vlag en Wimpel Award in the Netherlands. Her previous book with The O’Brien Press was The Rock Boy.