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Katie Ward was born in Somerset in 1979. She has worked in the public and voluntary sectors, including at a women’s refuge and for a Member of Parliament. She took a career break in order to write her debut novel, Girl Reading, after coming across an article about a book of portraits of women and girls reading.

Girl Reading is published by Scribner (US) and Virago (UK).

Katie lives in Suffolk with her husband and her cat. She likes lots of things, including: city breaks; bubble baths; Earl Grey tea; books; watching DVDs of The West Wing and Mad Men; theatre; pyjamas; dancing; and art.


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‘Ours is the biggest book club in the world,’ my host says. ‘We think so, anyway.’

This is my second speaking engagement at The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida. The first was on Thursday 7th February in the Daniels Pavilion to a sold out house of 282. On the following Saturday, the auditorium is at around half capacity. However, as this is the Hayes Hall, a full scale concert h... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.41 · 869 ratings · 146 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Girl Reading
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions

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Katie Ward rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright
This is a novel about mental health, memory and how the fabric of families can potentially unravel – all rich subjects for fiction – and Susan Elliot Wright delivers them splendidly.

The Things We Never Said begins with Maggie waking up in a mental ho...more
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The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter
The Sea Change
by Joanna Rossiter (Goodreads Author)
In her debut novel, The Sea Change, Joanna Rossiter writes about a peculiar kind of grief. I do not know the name of it. I wish I did.

Her book, you see, is about lost landscapes. She bases her story on two real events: the appropriation of Imber, a W...more
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"Thanks everyone for these contributions. I will pass them on to the Reading Agency. Best wishes, K x"
Katie Ward rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
Petite Mort
by Beatrice Hitchman (Goodreads Author)
I’ve recently learned that there’s a single sentence which, when used, compels me to read a book better than any other sales pitch, incantation or bribe ever could: ‘This plot has a twist we beg you not to disclose . . .’ Hello? I thought.

No spoiler...more
Katie Ward rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Rook by Jane Rusbridge
Rook
by Jane Rusbridge (Goodreads Author)
Rook is a novel about a community with buried secrets, figuratively and literally. In it, Jane Rusbridge (author of The Devil’s Music) has woven together threads of historical fact, and local folklore, into a fabric of subtle colours and closely obse...more
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