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Sonya Hartnett is the author of eighteen novels, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning Of A Boy (2000), and Thursday's Child (2002). In 2010 Hartnett published her début picture book, The Boy and the Toy, and her latest novel for younger readers.