‘A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power’
Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-Winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Available from April 10th
REVIEWS​
‘So deeply moving: sad and beautiful and true’
Annie MacManus, author of The Mess We’re In
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​"This is a book of such tenderness, full of pain, grief and despair and yet playful and joyful at the same time. Kit de Waal has an uncanny ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach into the pages to hug them.
I truly loved this book."
Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
"What a wonderful novel, bursting with life.
Kit de Waal is a writer who knows all the secret longings of the human heart ."
Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Ordinary Time
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"Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console, to make life with her sentences."
Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The judging panel is chaired by author Kit de Waal.
​She is joined by:
Novelist, journalist Diana Evans
Author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon
Magazine editor, Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph;
Musician and composer Amelia Warner.
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. 2025 celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Audible and Baileys.
Pictured, L-R: Bryony Gordon, Amelia Warner, Diana Evans,
Kit de Waal, Deborah Joseph
LATEST
The Green & The Black is about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through multiple generations of one family
​Discussing the power of diverse voices with Iole Dexter. ​
Kit is now represented by Peter Strauss at London-based literary
agency RCW. Contact details are on the contact page and in the footer.
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EVENTS
PUBLISHED WORKS
INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS
WATCH
Making Dad's Fruitcake with
Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books
LISTEN
Penguin Podcast, Kit de Waal with Katy Brand (32 min)
Literary Salon with Damian Barr (44 min)
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day (58 min)
READ
The Times Literary Supplement Twenty Questions
The Aesthetic Memoir with Lily Dunn
The Class Work Project with Shan Stephens
QUICK, ONLINE
READS
Article from The Irish Times
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Books Ireland Magazine
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A short story Resistance.
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COLLABORATIONS
& OTHER WORK
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Jean Humphreys Writer in Residence at the University of Leicester
Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick
Advisory Board Member, Dead Ink Books
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Ambassador of The Film & TV Charity
Ambassador of Listening Books
Member of The Society of Authors
Member of the The Black Writers' Guild
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Ambassador of Wellbeing in the Arts
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Patron of The Bridport Prize
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Trustee of The Reading Agency
Patron of Prisoners Abroad
Patron of Met Film School
Patron of Create Central
