Happy Boxing Day!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day whether it was hectic with kids and noisy toys you wish you’d never been organised enough to buy the batteries for, or quiet and peaceful and spent with a few new books. Hopefully, between After Eights, you found five minutes to sit down and have a read of Jan Carson’s advice to budding writers, and if not, then you can find it here.
And so, on we go to day two of my Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice, and today, another brilliant best-selling and prize-winning novelist just for you. Ladies and gents, I present, Kit de Waal.
Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Caribbean father. Her debut novel, My Name is Leon, was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and she has received many other awards for her writing including the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize in 2014 and 2015. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was published in 2019 and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her brilli…