A Conversation with Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60s and 70s.
Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. In 2022 it was adapted for television by the BBC.
Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was long-listed for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. Kit is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Writer in Residence at Leicester University.
Her memoir Without Warning and Only Sometimes was published in August 2022.
Kit’s Choices:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Open by Andre Agassi
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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