Veronica Bennett is a children's novelist. She previously worked part-time as an English Lecturer and now writes fiction full-time. She graduated from University College, Cardiff in 1975 with an Honors degree in English. She began her writing career as a freelance journalist, but soon moved into fiction. Her first book, Monkey, was published in 1998 and was acclaimed by The Times Educational Supplement as "an impressively well-written and audacious debut". Veronica Bennett is married with two children, and currently resides in Middlesex. Bibliography Monkey (1998) The Boy-free Zone (1999) Dandelion and Bobcat (2000) Fish Feet (2002) Angelmonster (2005) Cassandra's Sister (2006) Shakespeare's Apprentice (2007) References English women novelists English children's writers 1953 births Living people 21st-century English novelists 21st-century English women writers