![]() The book has also been published in Germany as Die Mädchen des Todes, and has been published in Spain, Holland and the US. Grant states that the book was inspired by the legends of the German town in which she spent time while growing up. The Independent's Barry Forshaw praised the books ability to shift perceptions from the teenager protagonist's pursuit of mystical answers to adult's skepticism. Laura Wilson, writing for The Guardian, called it "an eerily subtle literary page-turner" that doesn't contain anything "remotely winsome or mawkish". It was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was published by Penguin Books in April 2009. She was educated at Dr Challoner's High School and went on to read classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Helen Grant (born 1964 in Westminster, London) is an English author of novels for young adults, now based in Crieff, Scotland. ![]()
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