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This is the official web site of Anne Fine, the second Children's Laureate and a distinguished prize-winning writer for children of all ages, with over fifty books to her credit. She has also written for adults to considerable critical acclaim. This site has news and information about Anne, and showcases her books. Mr Goodhew, watching from the staffroom, can't help but wonder at the boy's gift for stillness, and his seemingly cast-iron happiness.

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But maybe tranquility can be catching. Because gradually everyone in the school comes to appreciate what Finley's long silences can offer. Even Juliet finds answers to her crushing worries when she's close to Finley, up on the wall. I'm fascinated by how many children seem to be comfortable in frenzies of activity or living behind walls of noise.

I'm not like that at all. In the schools I attended all those years ago, the actual lessons were kept pretty controlled and quiet. I've frequently wondered how the shy, the anxious, or the merely self-contained still manage, even thrive, in today's often much livelier surroundings.

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But over the last few years, I've watched a child whose family I know well as he's moved up through school, steadily, calmly, - a still centre of peace in all the vortexes of chaos round him. Authors are famously nosy about how people tick, and my fascination grew and grew - how does he do it? So I invented Finley, embarking on his first year at Windfields.

Schooling's been difficult for so many young ones since the Covid epidemic and the move from primary to secondary can be a particularly demanding time. I've had great fun choosing a 'home class' bursting with individual characters whose personalities mesh or conflict, endlessly and interestingly - and I hope amusingly - refracting on one another.