In Conversation
Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to a Caribbean father and Irish mother, a childminder and foster carer. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law, was a magistrate for several years and sat on adoption panels. She advised Social Services on the care of foster children, and has written training manuals on adoption, foster care and judgecraft for members of the judiciary.
Her writing has received numerous awards including the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2014 and 2015 and the SI Leeds Literary Reader's Choice Prize 2014 and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. My Name Is Leon, her first novel, was published in 2016 and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. She has two children and lives in the West Midlands.
Kit will be talking about her life and her writing in what is sure to be an inspirational afternoon.
