Without Warning
& Only Sometimes
Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
A childhood memoir set to become a classic.
'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read.' - Marian Keyes
From
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2022
Pay what you can to watch online.
Available to watch any time.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN, THE BROADCAST AND/OR PUBLICATION OF SOME SEPTEMBER EVENTS AND ARTICLES MAY BE DELAYED
EVENTS
Autumn/Winter 2022
OCT 7
OCT 8
OCT 9
OCT 10
OCT 15
OCT 18
Undoctored: Adam Kay in Conversation
OCT 21
NOV 1
Centre for British Studies, Berlin
NOV 3
NOV 11
NOV 13
NOV 20
NOV 25
NOV 27
PODCAST APPEARANCES
Running time: 34 min.
LITERARY SALON with Damian Barr
Running time: 44 min
JUST THE TONIC with Kate Derham
Running time: (to run Sept. 2022)
Running time: 1hr
THE BETTER MAN with Alex Myers
Episode #14 - Running time: 1hr
Episode #44 - Running time: 1hr 24 min.
HOW TO FAIL with Elizabeth Day
Running time: 58 min
Running time: 35 min
Running time: (to run August 16 2022)
PRINCESS The Strand with Anita Anand
Running time: TBC
Running time (to run 15 August 2022)
Running time: (to run 23 Sept. 2022)
Running time: (to run 3 October 2022)
QUICK, ONLINE READS written by Kit
A short story Resistance.
Flash Fiction.
Article from The Irish Times
Books Ireland Magazine
INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS
WATCH In Conversation with Russell Kane
Harper’s Bazaar interview – September 2022
Writers Mosaic interview - to run on publication
Saga Magazine interview – September 2022
READ - The Business Post (Ireland) interview
WATCH - Audible UK - Kit de Waal on Her Memoir
READ - The Independent, Ireland memoir review
READ - The Sunday Independent memoir extract
WATCH - Items from My Childhood with Dean O'Loughlin
WATCH - Making My Dad's Fruitcake with Dean O'Loughlin
WATCH Kit de Waal, Lynette Linton and Sir Lenny Henry chat to Salman Mirza about the BBC drama My Name Is Leon.
PUBLISHED WORK
Supporting Cast
Capturing the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives.
My Name Is Leon
Best selling debut novel.
The Trick to Time
"Heroically ordinary."
- Financial Times
A valuable anthology of working-class writers.
COLLABORATIONS & OTHER WORK
Co-founder
Primadonna Festival
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Member
The Black Writers' Guild
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Writer in Residence
Limerick University
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“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke