Kate Murray-Browne is a writer and editor. Her first novel, The Upstairs Room, was published by Picador in 2017 and was a Times’ Book of the Year, and her second, One Girl Began, will be published in 2024. She was an editor at Faber for eight years, where she worked with award-winning authors and on Sunday Times’ bestsellers. As a
freelancer, she has worked for a number of major publishing houses, as well as continuing to work one-to-one with writers to develop their manuscripts.