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Louisa Leaman (born 24 June 1976) is a
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-based author. Her debut novel, ''The Perfect Dress'', published by
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, is an uplifting contemporary romance about vintage wedding dresses. In the US it is titled ''The Second Chance Boutique'' and is published by
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. It is also published in Germany, Italy and Spain. Leaman's second novel, ''Meant To Be'', was published in October 2020. As well as writing novels, Louisa researches and writes for the
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website.


Early life

Louisa was born on 24 June 1976 and grew up in Loughton, Essex. She was educated at
Bancroft's School Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent day school located in Woodford Green, London Borough of Redbridge. The school currently has around 1,000 pupils aged between 7 and 18, around 200 of whom are pupils of the Preparatory School an ...
, Woodford Green, then attended
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, where she studied Art History followed by a PGCE teaching qualification in Secondary Art & Design.


Career

In 2004 Louisa won a writing competition in the ''
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''. This led to a publishing deal with Continuum International Publishing), for whom she wrote five teaching/behaviour management guides. As an experienced teacher and behaviour consultant, she delivered teacher training throughout the UK, mainly based on her book ''Managing Very Challenging Behaviour''. Louisa has written for Hachette Children's Books, with titles including ''The Garden'' and ''Born Free Elephant Rescue: The True Story of Nina and Pinkie'', based on The
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's dramatic rescue of orphaned elephants. The book describes the story of Nina the African elephant, who was released into the wild after decades of captivity. Nina's story was also televised by the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
, in a documentary featuring British actor,
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, called ''Born to be Wild''. Louisa has also contributed to many journals, magazines and newspapers, including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. She wrote a weekly column for the ''Times'' Education Supplement Magazine and a column for the ''Guardian-Series'' newspaper about motherhood.


Bibliography

*Leaman, L. (2005). ''Managing Very Challenging Behaviour''. Continuum International Publishing. *Leaman, L. (2005). ''Classroom Confidential''. Continuum International Publishing. *Leaman, L. (2006). ''The Naked Teacher''. Continuum International Publishing. *Leaman, L. (2007). ''Dictionary of Disruption''. Continuum International Publishing. *Leaman, L. (2008). ''The Perfect Teacher''. Continuum International Publishing.


References

* 1976 births Alumni of Bretton Hall College British non-fiction writers Education writers Living people People educated at Bancroft's School Alumni of the University of Leeds People from Loughton {{UK-writer-stub