Penelope Todd

Penelope Todd is already an award-winning author of fiction — the YA Watermark trilogy; Peri, Box and others, Island, Amigas (co-written in English and Spanish) and much-loved memoir Digging For Spain: a Writer’s Journey. 

She has gained residencies at the Iowa International Writing Programme, Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, Can Serrat in Spain, Argentina and the Dunedin College of Education. She was a publisher at Rosa Mira Books, and works as a freelance editor and literary assessor. 

In this, her latest novel Nell, Todd’s fine writing brings her grandmother to radiant and vivid life.