Ellie Phillips
| Titles: | Dads, Geeks And Blue-Haired Freaks |
| Category: | Children's |
| Agent: | Veronique Baxter |
Ellie Phillips is a children's writer. She is currently working on her first two novels for Egmont.
Her childhood home was a flat above her parents' bookstore and she spent a lot of time sitting under the shop counter reading the stock and wishing there were more novels like Forever by Judy Blume out there.
Ellie trained as a journalist and has been a runner up in the Bridport Prize for short story writing.
She lives in Hackney with her partner, eight year old son and hamster, Edmund.
Sadie Nathanson spends her life trying to survive the excruciating embarrassment of simply existing. It's hard enough being a bit of a shrinking violet within a loud and outspoken extended family, but the unexpected card from 'Dad' on her 15th birthday is the last straw. As 'Dad' was an Internet sperm-donor, it doesn't take a genius to work out that this is a bad joke, probably set up by her ex-best-friend Shonna. But it starts Sadie wondering - just who was her father? Is he the cause of her worry crinkle and wonky bum? What would happen if she tracked him down? So she decides to do just that. With help from her nerd cousin Billy, his friend Nodding Tony and a regular dose of 'Haironomics' (Sadie's own hairstyle-related philosophy system), they uncover a lot more than they bargain for...
Featured Title: Dads, Geeks And Blue-Haired Freaks
