'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes

Pre-order here  -  Without Warning & Only Sometimes Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

"​A childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true.

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.

Caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day."  - Amazon

PODCAST APPEARANCES

RELATIVELY, About Siblings
Running time: 36:64 min. Broadcast May 3rd 2022.

Episode 41: Kit de Waal & Dean O'Loughlin work as screenwriters together, drawing on their incredible knowledge of classic film, inherited from their father, whose love of cinema was an escape from tougher realities.


JUSTICE, DISRUPTED with Byron Vincent
Running time: 1hr 2 min. Broadcast May 3rd 2022.

In this episode Byron speaks to writer and former magistrate, Kit de Waal.  They talk about how Kit's upbringing influenced her choices; her experience of working within the justice system and why compassion is always the answer.
 

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EVENTS - Summer 2022

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