Katharine Davies was born in 1968, and grew up in a village in Warwickshire, England. She read English and Drama at the University of London and taught English Language and Literature in secondary schools in the UK and also Sri Lanka. After doing an MA in Creative Writing, she moved to Wales to write. She won[1] the FosterGrant Reading Glasses Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2005 for her first novel, A Good Voyage, and currently lives in North London.