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Kate grew up in the wild and beautiful Devon countryside. After studying at Durham University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she worked as an international art consultant. She is married to a pilot, and lives with her family in the Middle East. Her debut novel 'The Beauty Chorus' was inspired by the many hours she spent on airfields in the UK, and the experiences of pilots in her family during WW2. Her second novel about the Spanish Civil War, 'The Perfume Garden', draws upon the years she lived in Spain, and will be published in June 2012 by Atlantic.




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Published on May 31, 2012 05:11
Average rating: 3.69 · 52 ratings · 21 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Beauty Chorus
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The Perfume Garden
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012
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More of Kate's books…
“That my life has come down to this – luck, is galling, when I have always directed my own fate. Land or water? Heads or tails? Life or death? We’ll see.”
Kate Lord Brown, The Beauty Chorus

“You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.”
Kate Lord Brown, The Beauty Chorus

“I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.”
Kate Lord Brown, The Beauty Chorus

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
Josephine Hart, Damage

“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that”
Richard Ford

“I am interested in silences”
Anne Enright

“Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere”
Joan Didion

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