Emma Smith-Barton

Author

Emma Smith-Barton is an author, creative facilitator, and qualified teacher from south Wales.

Her debut YA novel, The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, was published by Penguin Random House and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award, the Branford Boase Award and the Romantic Novelist’s Association Debut Romantic Novel Award 2020.

She has a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, a PGCE and a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. Her short stories for adults have been shortlisted for prizes and published in journals and anthologies.

In 2023 she was a judge for the Wales Book of the Year Award and one of ten writers selected for the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme.

Atlas and Skye

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Atlas’s Grandpa is beginning to forget things. The end of stories, where he put things – and Atlas is worried that soon Grandpa will forget him, too. Mum says that will never happen, not really – but Atlas is determined to fix him.

Skye is forgetting things, too. Like how it feels to have her big sister around now she’s left for uni, and the smell of her Grandma’s …

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Emma Smith-Barton

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