Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr is a British author. Her first novel, The Family Tree, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Author's Club First Novel Award, the Waverton Good Read Award, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was also a Daily Mail Book Club pick and was dramatised as a five-part serial on BBC Radio 4. In the US, it was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

The Family Tree was translated into several languages including Spanish, Italian, German, Czech, and Portuguese.

She used to be a journalist and travel writer for The Daily Telegraph and is now a features writer and columnist on The Observer. She has twice been shortlisted in the British Press Awards.

External links

• Collected reviews - http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/cadwalladrcarole/familytree
• Patricia T. O'Conner, "'The Family Tree': Genealogy Is Destiny", New York Times Review, 223 January 2005.