Secret Lives Winner is...Crowe

Despite many fine entries, I thought the streamlined simplicity of this one by Crowe was the most deserving of a copy of Secret Lives. (Which, er, should be out in a month or two or I will personally tie Sean Wallace at Prime Books to a stake and light a match. Figuratively.)“By the time Crowe was 16, she had wrestled an adder, disappeared into a Roman canal hidden under snow, learned the secret language of rooks, and won the annual Sea Cadets’ “Knotting By Night in a Force 10 Gale” award for the second time - achievements that little qualified her to write anything at all.”Crowe--just email me your snail mail.