Kate Sawyer grew up in Bury St Edmunds and worked as an actor and producer before turning her hand to fiction. She has previously written for theatre and short-film.

Having lived in South London for the best part of two decades Kate recently returned to East Anglia to have her first child as a solo mother by choice.

She is coming to Suffolk Book League to talk about her debut novel, The Stranding (Coronet: 2021) A novel of loss and hope about a woman who hides from the end of the world in the belly of a whale.

Marian Keyes, bestselling author said: 'THIS BOOK!!!!! It’s gorgeous and original and captivating… Beautiful writing and characters I cared for as if they were my own family.'