Kate Long
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Kate long, author of the number one bestselling novel The Bad Mother's Handbook lives in Whitchurch in Shropshire, UK.
She was brought up in Lancashire in a small village half-way between Wigan and Bolton. At 18 she left home to study English at Bristol University, where she gained a First, and then trained as a teacher in Exmouth for a year. Her first job was in Guildford, which is where she met her husband.
For over a decade Kate taught in a secondary school just outside Chester, but when her first novel, The Bad Mother's Handbook was accepted, in 2003, she gave up teaching and became a full-time writer.
The Bad Mother's Handbook was published by Picador in 2004 and became a number one bestseller, serialised on Radio Four’s Book at Bedtime and nominated for a British Book Award. The film rights were bought by Ruby Films and ITV showed the TV version in February 2007 which starred Catherine Tate.
Her two other novels so far are Swallowing Grandma and Queen Mum, both published by Picador. A fourth, The Daughter Game, will be released in 2007.
As well as novels, Kate Long has had short stories published in Woman’s Own, Woman & Home, The Sunday Express magazine and the Sunday Night Book Club anthology.
She describes herself as being inspired by family stories, and by power shifts in relationships, as well as how people form personal identities. Other favourite themes are class, disability, and the power of the maternal bond in all its forms, healthy or otherwise.
