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Jill Murphy, children’s author and illustrator, dies aged 72

The writer was best known for the much-loved picture book Peace at Last and the Worst Witch series of novels

  • ‘I just wanted to have a book on the shelf’ | Jill Murphy

Beloved children’s author and illustrator Jill Murphy has died at the age of 72. Murphy was best known for writing children’s book series The Worst Witch and The Large Family.

Murphy’s publisher Macmillan announced the author’s death in a statement, saying that she had died “peacefully” in a Cornwall hospital on Wednesday “following a long struggle with cancer”. Her son Charlie and her niece Isabelle were with her.

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