Catherine Banner

Catherine Banner was born in Cambridge, UK, in 1989 and began writing at the age of fourteen. She studied English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before moving to County Durham where she worked as a secondary school teacher. She has previously published a trilogy of young adult novels, The Last Descendants. She currently lives in Turin, Italy, w... ith her husband. Her debut adult novel, The House at the Edge of Night, tells the story of the 2008 financial crisis and 95 years of European history through one family and their bar on a tiny Mediterranean island. It has been published in 24 languages, and was listed as a Kirkus Reviews and NPR best book of 2016. Her second novel, The Lit and Unlit World, will be published in 2020. Catherine is a member of Italian PEN and PEN Writers' Circle. She is also the writing consultant for Project VOICE, a not-for-profit creative writing project which aims to provide a platform for development, peace, social care and humanitarian workers to tell the stories of their work in their own countries, in their own words. For enquiries about her work she can be contacted at catherine@catherine-banner.com.Read More