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Abbie Ross<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agent: Kate Hordern<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Abbie\u2019s elegant and subtly humorous memoir, HIPPY DINNERS (published by Doubleday 2014), is the story of a childhood in Welsh-speaking rural Wales. In 1972, when Abbie is seven, her glamorous metropolitan parents move from Islington to Wales in search of a different and simpler life. For Abbie, the only cloud on the horizon of this idyllic life is the nearby hippy commune and its inhabitants to whom, she fears, her parents are getting uncomfortably close.  A TV option in HIPPY DINNERS has sold to Baby Cow, with Steve Coogan and Jess Williams writing\/developing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbie Ross was a Senior Producer of television commercials at Aardman Animation. She lives in Bristol with her family. She is the author of HIPPY DINNERS (Doubleday 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise for HIPPY DINNERS:
\u201cCharged with delicious quirky wit \u2026 Irresistible.\u201d Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
\u201cWarm, laugh-out-loud, enchanting \u2013 read it now!\u201d Good Housekeeping<\/em>
\u201cAnyone who grew up in the era of Benny Hill, cheesecloth and Charlie\u2019s Angels will find this irresistible.\u201d Jane Shilling, Daily Mail<\/em>
\u201cHIPPY DINNERS is an absolute joy \u2026 both sweetly moving and killingly funny.\u201d Horatio Clare, author of RUNNING FOR THE HILLS
\u201cSpot on and very funny.\u201d Nina Stibbe, author of LOVE, NINA
\u201cBright with playground speech patterns and knee-high perspectives, HIPPY DINNERS deftly conveys the child\u2019s sense of powerlessness and confusion in a world she \u2013 and worse, even the adults around her \u2013 can\u2019t control.\u201d Guardian<\/em>
\u201cAn outstanding debut \u2026 so good, so funny, so true.\u201d  Julia Gregson, author of EAST OF THE SUN
\u201cRecreates the fragile, half-understood world of childhood with glorious Polaroid immediacy. I loved it.\u201d Christopher Wakling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Agent: Kate Hordern<\/p>\n

Check out this HIPPY DINNERS trailer https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SyiX8If53u8<\/a><\/p>\n

Abbie Ross is the author of HIPPY DINNERS (Doubleday 2014), and is now working on her first novel FORTUNE. Abbie was a Senior Producer of television commercials at Aardman Animation. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbbie Ross - KHLA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abbie Ross was a Senior Producer of tv commercials at Aardman Animation. 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