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Emily-Jane Clark.

Writer · United Kingdom

Emily-Jane Clark: a TV comedy writer turned children's author whose group-chat Cringe Club books turn tween mortification into fast, funny, deeply relatable reading.

Emily-Jane Clark is a British author and comedy writer whose television credits include The Mash Report and The Jonathan Ross Show. In children's books she is known for her irreverent, laugh-out-loud voice, first for The Beasts of Knobbly Bottom — shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize — and its sequel. Her Cringe Club series, illustrated by Wotto, is the story of Kennedy King surviving a mortifying first year at a new secondary school, and is told entirely through group-chat messages, lists, emojis and doodles, so it reads like snooping on a real phone. Warm, fast and genuinely funny, the books tackle friendship across distance, blended families and the daily indignities of Big School with real heart. A reliable, highly readable hit for reluctant readers and fans of Lottie Brooks and Dork Diaries.