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Kit de Waal

Author

Bio

Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father. My Name is Leon, her debut novel, was an international bestseller and won Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2016. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, followed in April 2018. She established the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck University to help improve working-class representation in the arts. She lives in London.

Kit de Waal Books

Without Warning and Only Sometimes book cover

Without Warning and Only Sometimes

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Without Warning and Only Sometimes book cover

Without Warning and Only Sometimes

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Common People book cover

Common People

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My Name Is Leon book cover

My Name Is Leon

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