Former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell, claims to have hung up her hotpants and Union Jack boots for the last time, embarking on a new career as a children's author.
The first of six books, all centred around a small, vivacious, ginger-haired girl called Ugenia Lavender, has been published by Macmillan.
Halliwell is full of ambitions for her young doppelganger, who she describes as summing up, “what being young is all about”. “I know there is a prejudice against celebrity authors, but if you read my stories you'll know they're not ghostwritten— only that I could be bonkers,” she confessed.
Halliwell’s Ugenia Lavender books are also distinctive in pushing a decidedly old-fashioned, moralistic approach to children's storytelling.
The Guardian
