Her debut novel, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen. Her second novel, This Family, was a Waterstones Book Of The Month and Paperback of the Year. Her third novel, Getting Away, will be released in July 2025 and has already been selected as a Bookseller Pick of The Month for July.
From 2022-2024 Kate produced and recorded 60+ episodes of her podcast Novel Experience, where she talks to other novelists about their writing practices and the experiences that led them to being published. She is a regular guest lecturer in creative writing at Suffolk University and Suffolk One and Abbeygate Sixth Form Colleges.
Kate is the programme curator and producer of the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival, in the Suffolk town she grew up in and returned to after the birth of her daughter.
