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Carys Bray

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Carys Bray is the author of a short story collection and three novels. Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award (First Novel) and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and she won the 2015 Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her short fiction has been broadcast on Radio Four and her novel A Song for Issy Bradley was a Book at Bedtime. Carys has worked with writers in the community and as a Creative Writing lecturer on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.