On Tuesday 9th October, students from Crookhorn College who had voted for the Hampshire Book Award attended a ceremony in Winchester.  Winning author of the book "Instructions for a Second-Hand Heart" Tamsyn Murray spoke about her writing in general but also she talked about how she wrote the winning book.  She spoke about the research she did, how long the book took to write, how parts were quite hard to write, in terms of accuracy and details but also in terms of the emotions she felt whilst writing. This was a really inspiring talk which all the students found interesting.  Students had the opportunity of buying Tamsyn's books as well as have them signed by her.