About Polly Ho-Yen
Polly Ho-Yen was a British writer, primary school teacher and children's writer.
Polly Ho-Yen is an English author.
Biography Ho-Yen was born in Northampton and grew up in Buckinghamshire. She studied English at the University of Birmingham and worked both in publishing and as a primary school teacher.
Her debut novel, The Boy In The Tower (2014), was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Her first adult novel, Dark Lullaby, was published in 2021.
Ho-Yen is based in Bristol, where she set up the Bristol Teen Book Award for Bristol secondary schools.
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For adults Title Year Dark Lullaby 2021
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