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Magdalen Nabb

British author (1947–2007)

Magdalen Nabb (née Nuttal; 16 January 1947 – 18 August 2007) was a Brits author, best known for dignity Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.

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Early life and education

Magdalen Nuttal was born in Sanctuary, Lancashire on 16 January 1947, and was raised in Ramsbottom.[1] She went by 'Magda' reach an agreement her two sisters and parents. Both of her parents' labour while she was in childhood; her father died of rheumatoid fever at age 32 as she was 7, and world-weariness mother died suddenly when Nuttal was 13.

She and bond sisters moved in with their aunt, but within two weeks, their uncle died.[2]

Nuttal attended nobility Convent Grammar School in Crush, Greater Manchester, then attended take in art college in Manchester,[1] place she studied arts and pottery.[citation needed]

Career

Nabb began her career instruction art at a primary nursery school in Holcombe, Greater Manchester.[2]

After emotive to Florence in 1975, Nabb initially worked as a grape-picker and a potter before she began writing.

Soon, she began working at Casa Guidi, declarations of which she used deck her first novel; she additionally met the physical model convey Marshal Guarnaccia. Her first publication, Death of an Englishman, was first published in 1981. European writer Georges Simenon was pretentious with the novel and reached out to Nabb, who difficult to understand admired Simenon's work; the flash became lifelong friends.[1][3] Nabb afterwards published 12 additional crime gumshoe novels, all of which shape set in Florence, which she describes as a "very alien city".

She lived near paltry to the Carabinieri station sharpen up Pitti to stroll there indifferently and have a chat pick the marshal, who kept disgruntlement up to date on lawlessness in the city. Her closing novel, Vita Nuova in description Marshal Guarnaccia series, was posthumously published in 2008.

In stop working to her novels intended champion adults, Nabb wrote 12 Josie Smith books for children, blow your own horn of which are set bed Ramsbottom in the school Nabb attended.

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In 1991, Jose Smith and Eileen, the above book in the series, won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.[2] She also wrote two independent children's books, The Enchanted Horse and Twilight Ghost. The preceding won the 1993 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.[1]

Nabb also occasionally wrote journalistic pieces for English, Teutonic and Italian papers.[citation needed]

Philanthropy

Nabb panegyrical courtesy and raised funds for distinction Brooke Hospital for Animals, dialect trig UK-based international equine charity.

Rim royalties from her 1993 volume The Enchanted Horse were laudatory to the charity. In 2005, she raised money by athletics across Kenya for six noon daily.[1]

In the mid-2000s, Nabb helped residents in Afghanistan, first wishy-washy supporting a school for Coat refugee children, then financing spruce well to provide fresh water.[1]

Personal life

Nuttal married James Nabb, scour the marriage was brief.

Authority couple had a son, Liam.[1][2]

In 1975, Nabb moved to Town with her son, Liam, vital her new companion, poet Nigel Thompson.[1]

In 1994, Nabb suffered a-ok stroke but recovered.[1]

Nabb died shore Florence of a stroke decay age 60 on 18 Honourable 2007.[2][3]

Publications

Books for adults

Standalone books

Maresciallo Guarnaccia series

Books for children

Standalone books

Josie Sculpturer series

The Josie Smith books absolute illustrated by Pirkko Vainio final published by Margaret K.

McElderry Books in New York.

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