Kate's Story

Kate has written 15 books for the Big Five publishers, 4 of which have been Top Ten Sunday Times bestsellers, as well as making the bestseller lists in Spain, Australia, Canada and South Africa. 

Uncovering hidden stories is at the heart of everything she writes and Kate employs assiduous research to bring these stories to life.

Her 2018 narrative non-fiction, The Stepney Doorstep Society – about the secret matriarchal societies of wartime East London published by Penguin (Michael Joseph) – was critically acclaimed and led to her being invited to deliver a lecture to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.

Kate’s 2022 novel based on the true story of a forgotten underground library, The Little Wartime Library, uncovered through years of interviews with working-class wartime women, helped to reverse the decision to close Bethnal Green Library in its centenary year. 

The discovery of a Holocaust survivor’s father’s grave after 80 years gave an emotional depth to A Mother’s Promise, which Bel Mooney described in the Mail on Sunday as ‘an excellent, beautifully written historical narrative’.