 Her first novel, "Eve Green", was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins.It features an eight-year-old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales.It won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award, the Authors' Club award and the Betty Trask Prize; it was also shortlisted for The LA Times Book Award and was picked for Channel 4's Richard and Judy Summer Reading list.