She died at her home in Newcastle in 2010, aged eighty-five.
Despite her late literary start, Eva went on to write more than twenty books for children and won the Smarties Prize for her novel Journey to the River Sea in 2001. Eva didn’t start writing until she was in her thirties and her first children’s book, The Great Ghost Rescue, was published in 1975 when she was fifty years old. After realising a career in science wasn’t for her she retrained as a teacher. Eva attended the prestigious Dartington Hall School, before studying Physiology at Cambridge University. Other members of Eva’s family also escaped Vienna and settled in England, and their shared experiences later influenced Eva’s writing, with the themes of home, refugees and immigration running through her books.
Orphan Maia is thrilled to learn she is to live with relatives in South America. Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her childrens books.Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. Born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1925, at nine years old Eva moved to London to join her mother, a successful novelist and playwright, who had fled Vienna in 1933 after her work was banned by the Nazi authorities. Journey to the River Sea Family Moving home Journey to the River Sea (28 reviews) Author: Eva Ibbotson Publisher: Macmillan Childrens Books This satisfyingly old-fashioned story is set in the early 1900s. Eva Ibbotson’s life was as adventurous as those of the characters she created in her mystical middle-grade stories and sweeping young adult romances.
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