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Katy Varley

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Katy Varley is a debut novelist from the Northeast of England, and a little town famously built at the end of Hadrian’s Wall. A Geordie through and through, she is a single mother to three sons, one teenager and two now adults, and shares her home with two cockapoos and a very opinionated Russian cat.

After nearly two decades working within the NHS, and as a frontline paramedic, Katy began writing during a period of illness that left her unable to work. What started as therapy became storytelling; a way of exploring the raw, complicated and often unspoken realities of survival, identity, grief, resilience and the lives people build while carrying invisible weight.

Her experiences in frontline healthcare, motherhood, divorce, and raising a neu ...more

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The Thin Green Wedge : Where saving lives meets surviving your own

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No.1 on Amazon today!!

Absolutely blown away to see The Thin Green Wedge hit No.1 today in Divorce & Children's books!

A massive thank you to everyone who pre-ordered, and got early access, I can't wait for you all to dive in this week. The Thin Green Wedge

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The Movie Set

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