PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Born in 1968 in London, Kate Hardie left school aged 14 to begin a career as an actress and went on to work with many of Britain's most creative filmmakers. Aged 38, she attended the National Film and Television School to train as a screen writer. She has since written and directed films for Channel Four, The BFI and Sky, and is due to direct her feature script Starting the End in early 2023. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel.
‘Punches you in the guts with beauty, pain and brevity, and pulls you along with the compulsion of a thriller. Lean, exquisite prose that shoots a dart to the heart. It’s about what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, trying to grapple with her sanity, as she unravels and makes sense of her present by reaching back into her past. I adored it.’ Abi Morgan
