Patrick Cave (born October 1965) is a British novelist and hypnotherapist.
He attended boarding school for seven years, during which he developed a love of music and of cross-country running.
After obtaining his degree and a teaching certificate, he taught for ten years.
'[1] He believes that his readers bring their own meaning to his books and with all the ingredients of excitement, suspense, catharsis, and escapism present in the story, there is no one "message".
[11][12][13][14][15] Blown Away was shortlisted in The Guardian's 2006 children's fiction prize, where it was described as 'a thought-provoking novel about how individuals and societies survive when science creates new possibilities that threaten them'.