Nicola Garrard

Speaker Summary

Nicola Garrard took her PGCE in English and Drama and taught in secondary schools for 23 years, including 15 years at a challenging inner-city London comprehensive. Her debut novel, 29 Locks, about gang- and poverty-affected teenagers, was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition and was published on the 30th September 2021.