A Little Love, a Little Learning

Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. According to the BBC, Bawden was "one of the few modern novelists to write successfully for both adults and children", while P. D. James described her as "among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today". A recipient of the Golden PEN Award, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.