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Kate Sawyer

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Born

in Bury St Edmunds, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.mskatesawyer.com/

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Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary

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Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer, and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of three novels: Getting Away, Waterstones Fiction Book of The Month, This Family, and her debut novel, The Stranding, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

When Kate isn't writing, or talking to other authors about their writing practices for her podcast Novel Experience and as a chair for author events, she is the Artistic Director for the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.

After twenty years living in London, she recently returned to her native East Anglia, where she lives with her young daughter. ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 9,102 ratings · 1,035 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranding 4.19 avg rating — 5,756 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Family 3.80 avg rating — 2,917 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Away 3.83 avg rating — 413 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Family 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I want the sea. I want real life and art and food and friends and sky and water.”
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“But she forgot that, if she fell, her family was there, waiting to catch her like one of those big trampolines that he'd got to use in that fire- fighter show”
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“How did they get here? When did everything change? Why didn't she notice the time passing so quickly?”
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