Kathleen Jowitt

Kathleen Jowitt is an English novelist born in Winchester who grew up in the Welsh Marches and on the Isle of Wight. She read English at the University of Exeter and worked for a trade union. Her self-published first novel, Speak Its Name, about a student who is an officer in her university’s Christian Fellowship, received a Betty Trask Award in 2017, the first self-published book to do so. Her later novels are A Spoke in the Wheel and The Real World.

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