sentences:  She married David Gardam QC and they had three children, Tim, Catharine (Kitty) Nicholson, a botanical artist who died in 2011, and Tom.Gardam's first book was a children's novel, "A Long Way From Verona", a 13-year-old girl's first-person narrative, it was published in 1971.It won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1991, which recognizes the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.