Kay Langdale

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Kay Langdale


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Kay Langdale was born in Coventry, England.

From a young age she loved to read and to write.

She attended Bedford College, London University, graduating with a first class degree in English Literature and then went to Oxford University where she completed a doctorate on Samuel Beckett’s prose fiction. She briefly taught twentieth century literature at St Edmund Hall, Oxford before beginning work as an account handler and copywriter at a brand consultancy.

She is married to a South African entrepreneur, with whom she has four children who are now mostly grown. Kay divides her time between their homes in Oxfordshire and Devon.

Now writing her eighth novel, Kay also works as an editor for the charity The Children’s Radio Foundation which trains yo
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The Way Back To Us

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Away From You

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Choose Me

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Choose Me

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If Not Love

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Away From You

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Choose Me

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Redemption

4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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“In truth, I think I do not make it easy for anyone at all. There is about me a reserve, a frostiness I cannot shed, something cold at the edges that baffles exchange.”
Kay Langdale, If Not Love

“I feel as if somehow the world has speeded up. What used to take days can now take moments ...”
Kay Langdale, If Not Love

“Scout envisaged a future when names could no longer fit into the boxes on forms which were supposed to contain them; a whirling accumulation of names that buzzed like a swarm of bees, and a time when a child would have to practise for years before they could spell their own name.”
Kay Langdale, Her Giant Octopus Moment



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