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Kitty Johnson

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Kitty Johnson is an awarding-winning writer of emotional stories about empowerment and living your best life. She lives in Norwich, Norfolk in the UK, with her partner and teenage son. Her novel Five Winters was awarded the Star Award 2024 by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

A nature lover, Kitty enjoys walking in the local woods and by the sea in Norfolk with her dog. Also an artist, she paints and makes collages in her studio when she has time. Kitty enjoys a challenge and once performed stand-up comedy as research for a book - an experience she found very scary but hugely empowering. Kitty has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and has also published as Margaret K Johnson.

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Five Winters

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Happy Birthday, Prickly!

Last week marked one year since my novel PRICKLY COMPANY was published. The time seems to have flashed past since I wrote this story about a community trying to make life easier for local hedgehogs and dealing with the dramas that take place as a result!

When I set out to write Prickly, I’d just read Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere. I loved that story for so many reasons, but one thing I found Read more of this blog post »
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"Loved it! Best kind of book- hopeful, fun & inspirational. Lily's trying to make her way as an artist and find true love. She started with a not great childhood. Her journey is full of imperfect choices & setbacks, but with the help of friends, love " Read more of this review »
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you have a crush on your best friend’s brother when you’re eleven—flat chested and too shy to say boo to a goose—he is always going to see you that way.”
Kitty Johnson, Five Winters

“Don’t let life happen to you. Have a long, hard think about what you want and a long, hard look at what you’ve got, and see what syncs.”
Kitty Johnson, Five Winters

“You couldn’t will yourself to love people, just as—apparently—you couldn’t will yourself to stop loving them.”
Kitty Johnson, Five Winters

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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
Ann Lamott

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you have a crush on your best friend’s brother when you’re eleven—flat chested and too shy to say boo to a goose—he is always going to see you that way.”
Kitty Johnson, Five Winters

“I suppose the great dream of this writing lark is that the books continuously get newer and deeper and stronger. Or at least we hope that we’re not repeating ourselves…we have to be ‘continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.’ I think that’s what happened with this book. I saw a big cliff and I took off...I’m still flying, still catching the updrafts, still trying to understand it.”
– Colum McCann

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