No Worries: How to Deal With Teenage Anxiety feels particularly necessary in today's world[...] [Nicola Morgan] incorporates a good deal of research into her explanations. She is clear to distinguish between anxiety and an anxiety disorder [...] Morgan reassures readers that being anxious is not in itself a problem and is often your brain working as it should. Irish Times
A critically-acclaimed author, Nicola Morgan has written nearly a hundred books. Her fiction titles for young people include Mondays Are Red, Fleshmarket, The Highwayman's Footsteps, The Highwayman's Curse, Deathwatch, Chicken Friend, The Passionflower Massacre and Sleepwalking, winner of the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award. Her most recent novel, Wasted, won several awards, including the Scottish Children's Book Award (older readers) and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her best known non-fiction title, Blame My Brain - The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed, was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science. Nicola has also written a number of popular home learning books, including the I Can Learn series, Mega English and the Thomas the Tank Engine Maths series. Nicola lives in Northamptonshire; she is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and is currently an Ambassador for Dyslexia Scotland.