Narinder Dhami (born 1958 in Wolverhampton ) is a British children's author.
6-457: The Sleepover Club is a series of children's books by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami , Lorna Read, Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien (aka Lucy Diamond ), Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter. It has also been adapted into a children's television programme . While the books were set in Cuddington, Leicester , England , the television show was set in
12-456: A series of six for 9+ readers called The Beautiful Game about girls' football. A further four books in the series were published in 2010 and the last of the six appeared in Jan 2011. Dhami is one of the authors of the internationally successful Rainbow Magic series, written under the name of Daisy Meadows . Her most famous and biggest selling book was Bend It Like Beckham , a novelisation of
18-695: A teacher, and for the next nine years she taught in primary and secondary schools in Essex and in the London borough of Waltham Forest . During this time, she began writing stories for teenage magazines, and contributed many photo-stories to the now-defunct Jackie magazine, published by DC Thomson . Eventually she gave up teaching for a full-time writing job. For the last few years, she has been writing contemporary realistic fiction about children growing up in Britain. Her Babes quartet about three British Asian girls
24-460: Is extremely popular with girls between 9 and 14 years of age. She writes a wide range of children's books for pre-teens on other subjects and now increasingly for older teens too. Her characters reflect the British urban ethnic mix. Books for 2009 included a teen thriller Bang, Bang You're Dead! May 2009, which won or was shortlisted for a large number of book awards in 2010, and the first book in
30-635: The Gruesome Twosome or "The M&Ms." There are 54 books: Narinder Dhami Dhami's father was an Indian immigrant from the Punjab who arrived in the UK in 1954, and her mother is English. She grew up in a multi-cultural environment, with Asian Indian and western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and then Birmingham University , where she graduated in 1980. Dhami started working as
36-767: The fictional Australian beachside suburb of Crescent Bay. The books revolve around five young girls who are part of a club in which they sleepover at each other's houses at least once a week. The television series do not portray the same stories as the books with the possible exception of the first episode which loosely resembled the story where the girls try and set up their 'Brown Owl' with their school care-taker. The girls' names are Francesca "Frankie" Thomas, Rosie Cartwright, Felicity "Fliss" Sidebotham (Later "Proudlove"), Lyndsey "Lyndz" Collins and Laura "Kenny" McKenzie. Their rivals are two, snobbish girls in their class named Emma Hughes (nicknamed "The Queen") and Emily Berryman (nicknamed "The Goblin"). This pair are also referred to as
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