Personal Life
Pearce married Martin Christie in 1962. They had one child, who became a children's author herself, Sally Pearce. Christie, who had never fully recovered from being a Japanese prisoner of war, died in 1964. From 1973 until her death from complications of a stroke in 2006, Philippa Pearce lived once again in Great Shelford, down the same lane where she was raised.
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