CARYS BRAY
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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
. I
t 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
.
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