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​"This is a book of such tenderness, full of pain, grief and despair and yet playful and joyful at the same time. Kit de Waal has an uncanny ability to create vivid characters with such empathy that I want to reach into the pages to hug them. I truly loved this book."
Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
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"What a wonderful novel, bursting with life. Kit de Waal is a writer who knows all the secret longings of the human heart ."
Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Ordinary Time
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"Beautiful. De Waal has the power to astound, to lift and console, to make life with her sentences."
Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island
Available April 10, 2025
Without Warning & Only Sometimes
[Kit's] evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Moseley, perfectly captures the dreams and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham.
In this intelligent, angry and sometimes very funny memoir, the novelist looks back on her childhood as a Jehovah’s witness.
Dynamic and immersive, Kit de Waal's effervescent memoir documents a fraught childhood of opposites and conflicting identities with wit, humanity and an uncanny power for bringing the figures of her youth to vibrant life.
Becoming Dinah
A recasting of Moby Dick with a feminist twist, is Kit de Waal’s first YA novel, it will hopefully not be the last!
Becoming Dinah boasts standout
characters, lashings of sass and a warm
and generous heart.
Exploring issues of identity and gender,
whilst teasing out aspects of parental
relationships, obsession, and being Other.
The Trick to Time
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal review – life on the fringes of sweeping change
Kit de Waal: The Trick to Time review - In search of lost time
Review: The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal — the children who never lived
My Name Is Leon
My Name Is Leon, moving story of racial injustice
An emotional pile-driver arrives on a wave of hype
A boy separated from his brother finds respite in an allotment community
WHAT KIT SAYS
"Don’t dip your pen in someone else’s blood."
— Kit de Waal, The Irish Times