Eleanor Thom

Education

University of Glasgow. University College London.

Career

The book recalls experiences of her mother"s family who were Scottish Travellers and settled in Elgin, between 1920 and 1950. In 2008, Eleanor was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship to begin work on a second novel. Eleanor attended Chesham High School, 1995–1997, and later studied at University College London, and The University of Glasgow.

Achievements

• She is a British writer who won a major United Kingdom creative writing competition, New Writing Ventures 2006, with "Burns", a chapter from her first novel "The Tin-Kin" (Gerald Duckworth and Company Limited 2009). lieutenant won the Scottish First Book of the Year in 2009.