Katherine Roberts

Katherine Roberts is an English author, best known for her fantasy trilogy The Echorium Sequence. She was born in Torquay, England and spent most of her childhood in Devon and Cornwall, England. She is the daughter of Derek Robert and Dorothy Margaret . Katherine Roberts spent most of her childhood in Devon and Cornwall where she was born. She first entered education at an infant school in Redruth , later on joining the Oldway County Primary School in Paignton and then moving onto Torquay Grammar School for Girls . She graduated with a first degree in Mathematics from the University of... Bath. Following on from that, she has had numerous jobs associated with programming computers, looking after racehorses and a job in a pet shop. In 1999, her first book Song Quest was published, winning the Branford Boase Award for children. She later published Crystal Mask and Dark Quetzal which were both in the same series.
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