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FUREY, Maggie
Maggie Furey grew up in Northumberland, an area with a past rich in battle, lore and legend. She was born with a rare heart condition, and as her physical activities were very limited during her childhood, she turned to books for solace, adventure and entertainment, constructing rich worlds of imagination that have stood her in very good stead in her later career.
As she grew up, her health vastly improved by surgery, she qualified as a teacher, and went on to work as an advisor in the Durham reading and Language Resources Centre. She also organised children’s book fairs and became a regular reviewer on the BBC Radio Newcastle programme ‘Children and Books’.
“It’s clearly fate,” she says. “Whatever I did in life, it always brought me back to books. Even when I was at school I was best in English, and my teacher always said I’d be a writer.” Read the rest of this entry »