Abi Elphinstone

Abi Elphinstone is a British children's author.

Elphinstone in 2019

Early life

Elphinstone grew up near Edzell in Angus, Scotland.[1][2] At St Leonards School, she was dyslexic, and deemed "unteachable".[1] She is one of four children, two others of whom are also dyslexic.[1]

She studied English at the University of Bristol, before working as a teacher in Africa, Berkshire, and London.[2][3]

Career

Her first book was published in 2015, and by March 2020 had sold 225,000 books.[4] Saving Neverland published in 2023 is a sequel to J M Barrie's, Peter Pan. Set in the present day, it features ten year old Martha Penydrop and her seven-year-old brother, Scruff. Elphinstone has imagined her own Neverland but retained some of the creatures from Barrie's classic story.[5]

Personal life

Elphinstone is married to Edo, who works in finance, and they have two children.[6]

Publications
  • Sky Song, 2018
  • Everdark
  • The Snow Dragon, 2019
  • The Frost Goblin
  • The Crackledawn Dragon
  • Rumblestar
  • Saving Neverland

References
  1. McDonald, Sally (28 March 2019). "How a little girl branded unteachable at school grew up to become a children's best-seller". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. "Abi Elphinstone". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  3. "Q&A with children's author Abi Elphinstone". www.primarytimes.co.uk.
  4. Tivnan, Tom (30 March 2020). "&S inks new three-book Elphinstone deal". The Bookseller. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  5. "An interview with Abi Elphinstone". Just Imagine. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  6. McDonald, Sally (21 June 2021). "Author Abi Elphinstone: I wrote to lift readers out of pandemic gloom... and make kids giggle". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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