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Christina grew up in the English countryside, mostly barefoot. She loves the natural world and believes that stories, much like the roots of an ancient forest, connect readers and listeners in essential ways. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature and has since worked for a national newspaper, studied printmaking and taught literacy to children with learning differences. She now lives in Maryland with her family and a dog who loves to eat manuscripts. WILDOAK is her first book.

She is represented by Elizabeth Harding at Curtis Brown Ltd., New York.

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For news of upcoming events follow her on instagram @ c.c.harrington

One of Christina's favourite stories when she was little was The Little Red Hen. She owned a 1947 edition with a red cover and pictures for some of the words. It was old and fragile and had once belonged to her grandmother.

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I'm a slow reader - which is something I love to be when it comes to good books. As it turns out, I’m a slow writer too. I decided to start this blog so that I could share aspects of my creative process with other writers and readers at a gentler pace.  Reflecting on process helps to clarify things for me too.  I find that thinking about the craft of writing often serves to lift, inspire, reassure or challenge whatever I’m working on, no matter how stuck things can sometimes feel.  

Books and stories are transformative, they ignite the magic and power of the imagination whatever your age, whether you are a child seeing the world for the first time or fully grown up and you've seen it all before.  Books connect.  Books enable us to step into somebody else's shoes, to see the world through somebody else's eyes, to think, question and feel from somebody else's perspective.  In my mind at least, that matters. Very much.  And that's really why I love to read and why I'm so grateful to spend as much time as I can, writing. 

Or if you’re a young reader and you’d like to get in touch, please send me a letter - I would love to hear from you! It may take a little time, but if you include an address, I will definitely write back. Any mail can be addressed to:

P.O. Box 233,

1011 Bay Ridge Ave,

Annapolis MD, 21403 USA