Jennifer Claessen
Jennifer Claessen is an author and theatre-maker. She was born in Reading so, of course, grew up a book worm.
Her debut novel, The October Witches, was released by UCLan Publishing in the UK in 2022, Simon Kids US in 2023 and is the first book of the ‘A Month of Magic’ trilogy, contemporary retellings of Arthurian legend. The 'Netta Becker' trilogy is forthcoming in 2025.
Jennifer is Writer in Residence at Mayfair Library and Human in Residence at Ministry of Stories where she works with 8–12 year-olds to tell their own stories. She also teaches creative writing to slightly more grown-up writers at City Lit and artsdepot theatre.
Jennifer studied literature and theatre at a few universities and most recently programmed ‘Write for Joy’, an inclusive literary festival for Waltham Forest and was shortlisted in the Polka Playwriting Prize. She currently lives in Walthamstow with her partner, two young daughters, thousands of books and a very rusty yellow bike.
Netta Becker and the Missing Memory Maze
Available March 5th 2026
Legend and edge-of-your-seat action fuse together in this exciting second instalment of the Netta Becker trilogy, underpinned with a feminist retelling of Ancient Greek myth.
A hall full of statues. A pair of lost siblings. Monsters at every turn.
Under orders from the Titan called the Crone, Netta steps out of time itself. And, panicking just a little, her little brother Remy follows. Lost and alone, they each wake in a strange maze-like world as statues. Netta breaks free and begins her double quest: to find her brother and the second sister Titan.
But Remy can’t remember who he has lost – and when he is rescued by young Tig, he leaves his memories of Netta behind. By breaking sphinx riddles and with mythical beasts as new allies, Netta and Remy must find out who they are – and who the League of Archon is – in the Realm of Memory itself.
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