Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for Across the Barricades. Her first children's novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. Her first novel Liam's Daughter was an adult-orientated novel published in 1963. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and now lives in Edinburgh with her Canadian husband. She attended Strandtown Primary and then got a scholarship into Bloomfied Collegiate. Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the Old Town, but grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was 18.
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