Foxlight

Lyrical, with a quality of fairytale - a finely crafted celebration of nature, sisterhood, stories and love * The Times * Beautifully poetic and steeped in the natural world * Sainsbury's Magazine * Beautifully written * The Week Junior * Quietly wild, richly thoughtful * The Guardian * Some books are set out as verse but never achieve the poetic. Foxlight is set out as prose, but has the depth of poetry. * The Jewish Chronicle * Quite simply one of the most beautiful books I've ever read * Kiran Millwood Hargrave on October, October * Katya Balens October, October is a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status * Times Children's Book of the Week on October, October * It's EXQUISITE. Read it. Wild yourself. Open your heart to it. Written with the pen of a poet and the soul of Mother Earth. Glorious. It's like nothing else I've ever read. * Liz Hyder, award-winning author of Bearmouth on October, October * I love Katya Balens clear-eyed, poetic writing style, first encountered in The Space Were In and October, October. She has a special ability to dig deep into the emotional lives of the children she writes about; she is always privy to their darkest thoughts, always on their side. Original, compulsive, uplifting: this is another triumph for Balen. * The Times Children's Book of the Week on The Light in Everything * I loved this book. The deftness with which Katya creates such passionate, funny, broken, brave characters. What an achievement. Katya Balen can break your heart and make you snort with laughter in the same sentence * Natasha Farrant on The Light in Everything * Balen writes with sensitivity, highlighting how difficult change can be for a young person while ultimately creating an uplifting story * The Week Magazine on The Light in Everything *

Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Katya's debut novel, The Space Were In, was published in 2019 and was highly commended for the Branford Boase Award. Her second, October, October, won the Yoto Carnegie Medal. Her third novel, The Light in Everything, was published in 2022. When shes not writing books, Katya likes to scroll through dog-rescue websites, bake, and attempt to keep all her house plants alive. She lives in London with her partner and their dogs Raffi and Mouse. @katyabalen