'The school where I first met Cora Ravenwing was called Okington School, and I was just beginning to have real ideas and opinions of my own when I first went there...' With Cora Ravenwing (1980) Gina Wilson began her acclaimed career as a novelist for young adults. As she describes in a new preface to this reissue, the idea for the novel 'took a grip' on her such that she wrote without 'planning', inspired by the theme of a child's growing sense of intuition. "A sensitive, mystery-tinged portrayal of social tensions...Cora Ravenwing, village scapegoat, is the first child whom narrator Becky Stokes meets when her family moves outside London in the mid-1950s; and her reflections deftly pick up the undercurrents of gossip, hostility, and social pretension that power the story of their year's troubled friendship". (Kirkus Review).

 

There are 174 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Faber & Faber .

Gina Wilson is the author of novels for older children and picture books. Her titles include the novel "All Ends Up" (shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and the picture book "Prowlpuss" (shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and the Kurt Maschler Award). Paul Howard has illustrated a number of stories for Walker Books, including "The Bravest Ever Bear", winner of the Best Book to Read Aloud category in the Blue Peter Book Awards. He lives in Belfast.