Penelope Jane Farmer (born 1939) is an English fiction writer well known for children's fantasy novels.
[5] In 2000, Farmer published an article about the challenges facing the Hong Kong Chinese community in the UK.
In 1963, this received a Carnegie Medal commendation and was cited as an American Library Association Notable Book.
[3] The Summer Birds was soon followed by its sequels, Emma in Winter (1966) and Charlotte Sometimes (1969), and by A Castle of Bone (1972), Year King (1977), Thicker than Water (1989), Penelope: A Novel (1993), and Granny and Me (1998).
Farmer stated that she, while writing Emma in Winter, did not realize that identity was such a predominant theme in the novel until she encountered Margery Fisher's comments on the book.