Early Life
Cathy wrote her first picture book when she was 8 for her little brother Andy. She loved making comic books. She would rent picture books to a friend for five pence and then rent it again to someone else. She went to art college in Liverpool, then got a job as a fiction editor on Jackie magazine, as well as being an agony aunt for Shout, a teenage magazine. She married her boyfriend Liam and went back to college to train to be an art teacher. She taught in a Coventry Secondary School for a few years and then in several Scottish primaries.
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