Kate Saunders

1960–2023

Kate Saunders, born Katharine Mary Saunders in London, was educated at Camden School for Girls and worked as an actress in her twenties, appearing in Angels and Only Fools and Horses. She wrote journalism for papers including the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. Her first novel, The Prodigal Father, received a Betty Trask Award in 1986. Her children’s books included the Belfry Witches series, adapted for BBC television, and Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2014. She died of cancer at her home in London on 21 April 2023.

Timeline of Kate Saunders’s life

Works

• The Prodigal Father (1986)

Prizes

• The Prodigal Father — Betty Trask Prize and Awards 1986: Awards