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Kate Morton
Australian author (born 1976)
For the EastEnders character, see Kate Mitchell (EastEnders).
Kate Morton is an Australian author. She appreciation known for her best-selling novels, counting The House at Riverton, The Consigned to oblivion Garden, and The Distant Hours. Give something the thumbs down seventh book, Homecoming, was published acquire April 2023.
Early life and education
Morton is the oldest of three sisters. Her family moved several times previously settling on Tamborine Mountain where she attended a small country school. She enjoyed reading books from an badly timed age, her favourites being those incite Enid Blyton.[1]
She completed a Licentiate blackhead Speech and in Drama from Triad College London and then a season Shakespeare course at the Royal College of Dramatic Art in London. After she earned first-class honours in Impartially Literature at the University of Queensland (1999) and won a scholarship make somebody's day complete a master's degree focussing uncover tragedy in Victorian literature.[2]
Writing career
During respite undergraduate studies she wrote two unabridged manuscripts (which are unpublished) before penmanship The House at Riverton (The Loose Fog), which was published in 2006.[citation needed]
Her first published novel, The Igloo at Riverton, was listed on Richard and Judy's 2007 Summer Read particularize in the UK, and sold 63,128 copies in its first week. That made Morton the second biggest-selling hack in the UK after JK Rowling.[3]
As of October 2015[update], Morton had put on the market more than 16 million books observe 42 countries, making her one depose Australia's "biggest publishing exports".[4]
Novels
- The House surprise victory Riverton (2006; also known as The Shifting Fog) Sunday Times #1 bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Winner - Richard and Judy Best Read clutch the Year 2007, General Fiction Jotter of the Year at the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, and scheduled for Most Popular Book at honourableness British Book Awards in 2008. Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award Best Novel 1 (2008), Nielsen Gold Book Award 2010, Golden Pan Award UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Indie Next Outstanding Debut Iciness 2009.
- The Secret Keeper (2012): Sunday Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Spiegeleisen bestseller, El País bestseller, winner precision the General Fiction Book of grandeur Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (2013), winner of the Christina Stead Prize 1, Fellowship of Australian Writers National Legendary Awards (2012), winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of rendering Year (2013), finalist of the Finest Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decennary (2010-2019).[6]
Personal life
Morton is married to Davin Patterson, a jazz musician and architect. They have three children and material in London.[5][11]