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Skin taker michelle paver6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Main article: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness ![]() Her 2010 ghost novel Dark Matter was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. She resigned from legal practice soon after her return, to concentrate on writing. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, during which she travelled around France and America and wrote her first book, Without Charity. After reading biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she attained a first-class degree, she became a partner in a City of London law firm. She was educated at The Study and Wimbledon High School. Her family settled in Wimbledon, England when she was three. Her mother was Belgian ( Flemish) and her South African father ran a newspaper, the Nyasaland Times. Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in central Africa. ![]() For the sixth book of the series, Ghost Hunter (2009) she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Michelle Paver (born 7 September 1960) is a British novelist and children's writer, known for the historical fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in prehistoric Europe. ![]()
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