Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Lucy Hope and I write for child and adult readers. My first published book was Fledgling, a story about a Bavarian girl whose life is changed forever when a cherub is blown into her bedroom in a thunderstorm. My second book, Wren, set in North Wales, was published in 2022 and features a girl who dreams of building her own flying machine. It's a story of following your dreams and fighting against the constraints and expectations of the rigid Victorian society in which it is set.
​In 2018 I was lucky enough to do an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University.
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I live in Teddington in South West London, and when not writing teach creative writing in my local arts centre and in the community. I am currently working on a collection of short stories and a new novel for adult readers.
I am very lucky to have my own room in which to write, surrounded by essential author paraphernalia such as a selection of owls, two moon lamps, a velvet chair, inspirational books, more notebooks than I could ever possibly fill, motivational mugs, and a rather lovely pen.
My notebooks
I don't know a single writer who doesn't love notebooks. I have a notebook for every eventuality, for every story I'm working on, for scribbling, for plotting story ideas, for thinking up character names, for keeping a diary, and for planning what my family and I'll be eating each week. If something unexpected happens in my day, I'm pretty certain I have the notebook for it!
