Tabitha Suzuma


Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma is a British writer. She was born in 1975 and lives in London. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. She is known for her novel Forbidden which is based on a taboo relationship between brother and sister.

Biography

Tabitha Suzuma was born in West London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée until age fourteen. She graduated from King's College London with a degree in French literature.
Years later, Suzuma became a teacher and wrote her first novel, A Note of Madness. She has since written five more novels for young adults. Her fifth novel, Forbidden, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister. Her most recent novel was published in 2013.

Young Adult novels