Allan, Kate

Kate Allan lives in English countryside close to the Chiltern Hills. She developed plans to be a novelist at the age of seven after reading about the career of prolific children's author Enid Blyton, whose adventure and mystery story books she read avidly. She taught herself to use her mother's typewriter to try and make her stories look like proper books. Endlessly fascinated by the past, Kate took a degree in History before starting a commercial career. She took a notebook with her on the train to make best use of her commute to work and wrote two historical novels before receiving an offer