List Of Writers
SEWELL, KITTY
Contact via her publisher, Honno: 01970 623 150
Kitty Sewell, who speaks four languages, was born in Sweden and has lived variously in Spain, Canada, England and Wales. After running an estate agency in the frozen north of Canada she trained as a psychotherapist and then as a sculptor. Since 1991 she has written a popular agony column which is published in various newspapers around Britain. Her first book What Took You So Long is biographical and was published by Penguin in 1995. She loves adventure and travel and hitch-hiked around South America for a year in her late teens. She has done various long-haul motorcycling journeys, including a solo ride around Europe for her 50th Birthday. She is also a founder member of Catwomen from Hell, a Swansea motorcycling gang for women. Her debut novel Ice Trap (Honno, 2005), is set in Cardiff where Kitty now lives with her husband. It was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2006.
Her third novel Hector’s Talent for Miracles (Honno, 2007) is on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. Click here for more information.
Selected Publications:
As Kitty Sewell:
What Took You So Long (Penguin, 1995)
Ice Trap (Honno, 2005)
Bloodprint (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
As Kitty Harri:
Hector’s Talent for Miracles (Honno, 2007)
Contributed to:
My Cheating Heart (contributor) (Honno, 2006)
Ice Trap (Honno, 2005)
A gripping contemporary mystery set both in Cardiff and Moose Creek, a remote sub-arctic community in northern Canada. A 46-year -old Welsh surgeon’s life is turned upside-down when he receives a letter from teenage twins in Canada who claim to be his children.
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Hector’s Talent for Miracles (Honno, 2007)
A novel which starts out with Mair, who is searching for her long lost grandfather. Her journey takes her from Cardiff to Torre del Burros in Spain and to an Austrian town. There she discovers, not only her own family’s secrets, but those of the intriguing but puzzling Hector. Digging deep into the past unsettles both Mair and Hector, as many things are brought to the surface…
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