Dead Man's Cove was also shortlisted for a Galaxy National Book Award for Children's Book of the Year. In 2011, St John won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award for her book Dead Man's Cove, about an eleven year old girl called Laura Marlin who becomes a detective. Īfter studying journalism in Harare St John moved to London where she was the golf correspondent for The Sunday Times for almost a decade. It was later the focus of her memoir, Rainbow's End and many of her children's books are influenced by the nature reserve in which she grew up. When she was eleven, St John and her family moved to a nature reserve called Rainbow End's farm in Gadzema. Lauren St John was born in December 1966 in Gatooma, Rhodesia (now Kadoma, Zimbabwe).
She is best known for her children's novels including The White Giraffe and Dead Man's Cove which won her a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011. Lauren St John (born December 1966) is an author born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
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