Blood Red Road wins the 2011 Costa Children’s Book Award
Blood Red Road, the debut novel by Moira Young has won the 2011 Costa Children’s Book Award. The Costa Book Awards is one of the UK’s most prestigious and popular literary prizes, unique for having five categories. Moira is delighted, and says “I am immensely gratified that the story and characters I’ve lived with and cared about for so long, seem to speak not only to young people but readers of all ages.”
Blood Red Road is a story to make your heart beat faster. It is rip-roaringly commercial, with movie rights optioned pre-publication by Ridley Scott. Publisher Marion Lloyd says “Moira Young is a new writer of phenomenally powerful skills. To have the Costa judges crown her first novel as the winner of the children’s book award is simply fabulous.”