Patrice Lawrence

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Lawrence was born in Brighton, UK, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the south coast of England.

Patrice Lawrence's Titles

Our Story Starts in Africa

When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story...