Tabitha Suzuma
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Author of teenage fiction |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Tabitha Suzuma is of Anglo-Japanese descent and was born in London, the eldest of five children. She attended a French school in the UK and grew up bilingual. However, she hated school and would sit at the back of the class and write stories. Aged 14, Tabitha left school against her parents' wishes. She got a job as an assistant dance teacher and also worked at a centre for children with Cerebral Palsy. She continued her education through distance learning and went on to study French Literature at King's College London. After graduating, Tabitha worked as a primary school teacher and wrote her first novel, A NOTE OF MADNESS, whilst teaching full-time. In 2004 Tabitha left classroom teaching and began to divide her time between writing and tutoring. This gave her time to write her next four novels: FROM WHERE I STAND - a psychological thriller. WITHOUT LOOKING BACK - about a family on the run. A VOICE IN THE DISTANCE - sequel to A NOTE OF MADNESS. And then her latest book, and most controversial and challenging book to date: FORBIDDEN, about consensual sibling incest: a brother and sister who fall in love. Tabitha is currently working on her sixth novel. |
| Interests | Writing, music, psychology, mental health issues, special educational needs, child development, teen issues, disability issues, British Sign Language |
| Favorite movies | The Hours, Amadeus, Memento, Revolutionary Road, The Lives of Others, Atonement, Les Choristes, Rain Man, Salaam Bombay, L'Effrontee, Das Weisse Rauschen |
| Favorite music | Rachmaninov, Mozart, Beethoven, Faure, Leonard Cohen, Nightwish, Muse, Within Temptation, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, Bruno Coulais, Michael Jackson, Greyson Chance |
| Favorite books | The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, More Now Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched With Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison, The Disappearing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Madness by Marya Hornbacher, The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy, I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier, S.E. Hinton, K.M. Peyton, Lois Duncan |