Bestselling author Kit de Waal’s brand new, original fiction series about the changing face of modern Ireland, told across generations of the same family.

Writer
Born to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father, Kit de Waal grew up among Ireland’s Birmingham community in the 60s and 70s. His debut novel, My Name is Leon, was an international bestseller, was nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award and won the Kerry Group Award for Irish Novel of the Year in 2017. It was adapted as a BBC Two film in 2022. . Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and her young adult novel, Becoming Dinah, was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Prize 2020. Her memoirs Without Warning and Only Sometimes were published in August 2022. He is the boss of Prisoners Abroad. Bridport Prize and West Midlands Writing, Arts Wellbeing ambassador and trustee of The Reading Agency. Kit is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Letters and Professor and Jean Humphreys Author at the University of Leicester.

Reader: Derbhle Crotty
Author: Kit de Waal
Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4.

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