Kim Slater
About the author

Kim Slater

Kim Slater honed her storytelling skills as a child, writing macabre tales specially designed to scare her younger brother! A self-employed education-budget manager across several Nottinghamshire inner-city schools, she gained a first-class honours degree in English and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University at the age of forty and went on to pursue a MA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, Smart, has won four regional prizes and been shortlisted for over sixteen national and regional awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal.Kim lives in Nottingham with her husband and has one grown-up daughter.

Books by Kim Slater