What author was named one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945" and wrote the novel The Tin Princess?
The Tin Princess The Tin Princess (1994) is a young adult novel by the English author Philip Pullman, part of the Sally Lockhart series.
Tessa Hadley Tessa Jane Hadley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSL', '4': "} (born 28 February 1956; née Nichols) is a British author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won one of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham–Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's ﬁnest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful." As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.