DIVDIVKate Thompson (b. 1956) is an award-winning British-Irish author of adult and childrenâs fiction. She is best known for her young adult fantasy novels, which include the Switchers Trilogy: Switchers, Midnightâs Choice, and Wild Blood. She has won the Whitbread/Costa Childrenâs Book Award and the Guardian Childrenâs Fiction Prize, and has been awarded the Childrenâs Books Ireland (CBI) Book of the Year Award four times. Thompson lives on the west coast of Ireland.   /div/div