Address: c/o David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John St, London W1R 4HA, England. Publications: Liam's Daughter, 1963 The Prevailing Wind, 1964 The Tide Comes In, 1966 The Headmaster, 1968 The Lord on Our Side, 1970 The Twelfth Day of July, 1970 Across the Barricades, 1972 Into Exile, 1973 Frying as Usual, 1973 The Clearance, 1974 A Proper Place, 1974 Hostages to Fortune, 1975 The Resettling, 1975 The Pilgrimage, 1976 The Reunion, 1977 Snake among the Sunflowers, 1977 The Gooseberry, 1978 The Second Flowering of Emily Mountjoy, 1979 The File on Fraulein Berg, 1980 Greenyards, 1981 Maggie, 3 vols, 1982 Strangers in the House, 1981 The Winter Visitor, 1983 Sisters by Rite, 1984 Reasonable Doubts, 1986 The Freedom Machine, 1986 The Guilty Party, 1987 Rags and Riches, 1988 The Women's House, 1989 Tug of War, 1989 Glad Rags, 1990 Between Two Worlds, 1991 Hands off Our School, 1992 Night Fires, 1993 After Colette, 1993 Sulky Suzy, Jittery Jack, 1996 A Secret Place, 1998 Dark Shadows, 1998 John and the Treehouse, 1998 The Egg Thieves, 1999 Natasha's Will, 2000 Me and My Shadow, 1001 Tortoise Trouble, 2002 The Kiss, 2002 Tell the Moon to Come Out, 2003. /rebates/2f97808407640032fclearance-Lingard-Joan-08407640062fplp&. Genres: Novels, Children's fiction, Plays/Screenplays. She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and now lives in Edinburgh with her Canadian husband.LINGARD, Joan (Amelia). She attended Strandtown Primary and then got a scholarship into Bloomfied Collegiate. Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the old mile but grew up in Belfast in Holland Gardens where she lived until she was 18. Lingard was awarded an MBE in 1998 for services to children's literature. Joan Lingard obituary Prolific author best known for the Kevin and Sadie young adult novels charting friendship across the divide in 1970s Belfast Joan Lingard in 2003. Her most recent novel, What to Do About Holly was released in August 2009. In 1998, her book Tom and the Tree House won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award. Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children's Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire Children's Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. Lingard received the prestigious West German award the 'Buxtehuder Bulle' in 1986 for Across the Barricades. Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-oriented novel published in 1963.

She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since.

Lingard has written novels for both adults and children.

The Clearance by Joan Lingard