Lucy Strange
Children's writer
About
Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author. Her books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Often inspired by folklore, fairy tales and mythology, Lucy combines British landscapes and historical settings with touches of fantasy, creating utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen.
Lucy’s first novel, The Secret of Nightingale Wood (Chicken House, 2016), was the Waterstones book of the month. She was awarded an Arts Council grant to write her Second-World-War story, Our Castle by the Sea (2019) which won the Zilveren Griffel award in the Netherlands and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book prize 2020. Lucy’s gothic mystery, The Island at the Edge of Night (2024) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2025.
Lucy has written four dyslexia-friendly books for Barrington Stoke, including The Storm and the Minotaur (2023) which is being adapted for the stage by Slung Low. In 2024, Walker Books launched Lucy’s series Lockett & Wilde’s Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries— a collaboration with artist Pam Smy.
Before becoming a professional writer, Lucy worked as a secondary-school English teacher. She now speaks at schools, literature festivals and literacy conferences all over the world. Having also trained as an actor, Lucy narrates her own audiobooks, and won the 2019 Audie award in New York for her narration of The Secret of Nightingale Wood.
Lucy lives in the heart of the Kent countryside with her husband and son.