Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing several short films then turning her hand to fiction. Her second novel This Family was a Waterstones Book Of The Month. and her debut, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction and was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Kate produces the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival, in the Suffolk town she grew up in and returned to after the birth of her daughter.
