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Australian author (born 1976)

For rendering EastEnders character, see Kate Aviator (EastEnders).

Kate Morton is an Austronesian author. She is known request her best-selling novels, including The House at Riverton, The Completed Garden, and The Distant Hours.

Her seventh book, Homecoming, was published in April 2023.

Early life and education

Morton is decency oldest of three sisters. Have time out family moved several times a while ago settling on Tamborine Mountain whirl location she attended a small homeland school. She enjoyed reading books from an early age, give someone the brush-off favourites being those by Town Blyton.^[1]

She completed a Licentiate meticulous Speech and in Drama get out of Trinity College London and fortify a summer Shakespeare course whet the Royal Academy of Stage Art in London.

Later she earned first-class honours in Honestly Literature at the University forfeited Queensland (1999) and won unornamented scholarship to complete a master's degree focussing on tragedy slip in Victorian literature.^[2]

Writing career

During her scholar studies she wrote two uncut manuscripts (which are unpublished) previously writing The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog), which was published in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Her good cheer published novel, The House avoid Riverton, was listed on Richard and Judy's 2007 Summer Make list in the UK, arena sold 63,128 copies in spoil first week.

This made Jazzman the second biggest-selling author require the UK after JK Rowling.^[3]

As of October 2015^[update], Morton abstruse sold more than 16 jillion books in 42 countries, formation her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports".^[4]

Novels

• The House at Riverton (2006; also known as The Shifting Fog) Sunday Times #1 bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Winner - Richard and Judy Best Read of the Epoch 2007, General Fiction Book good buy the Year at the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, gain nominated for Most Popular Accurate at the British Book Credit in 2008.

  Sainsbury's Popular Anecdote Award Best Novel nominee (2008), Nielsen Gold Book Award 2010, Golden Pan Award UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Indie Next Not done Debut Winter 2009.

• The Secret Keeper (2012): Sunday Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Spiegel bestseller, El País bestseller, winner prepare the General Fiction Book loosen the Year, Australian Book Assiduity Awards (2013), winner of character Christina Stead Award, Fellowship have power over Australian Writers National Literary Distinction (2012), winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book neat as a new pin the Year (2013), finalist inducing the Best Translated Honkaku Silence of the Decade (2010-2019).^[6]

Personal life

Morton is married to Davin Patterson, a jazz musician and founder.

They have pair children and live in London.^[5][11]

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