Carys Bray's debut collection Sweet Home won the Scott prize and selected stories were broadcast on BBC Radio Four Extra. Her first novel A Song for Issy Bradley was serialised on BBC Radio Four's Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for several awards including the Costa Book Awards and the Desmond Elliott Prize. It won the Utah Book Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and was selected for the 2015 Richard and Judy Summer Book Club. Her second novel The Museum of You was published in 2016 and her third novel When the Lights Go Out was published in 2020 and was one of the Times best paperbacks of 2021.
Carys has a BA in Literature from The Open University and an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.
For more information see British Council Literature.
Carys has a BA in Literature from The Open University and an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.
For more information see British Council Literature.
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