Carys Bray
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Carys Bray | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carys Anne Irwin December 1975[1] Southport, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | |
| Notable awards | Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Scott Prize; Edge Hill Prize |
| Relatives | Matt Irwin (brother) |
Carys Anne Bray FRSL (née Irwin; born December 1975) is a British writer.
Bray was born in Southport to a strict Mormon family. She spent her teen years in Exeter; her father was a local stake president in Devon and Cornwall.[2]
Bray graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English literature from Open University in 2008 and subsequently completed a Master of Arts (MA) at Edge Hill University in 2010 followed by a PhD.[3]
Career
A lapsed Mormon, her debut novel A Song for Issy Bradley (2014) follows a Mormon family undergoing a crisis of faith.[4][5]
Her second novel, The Museum of You, was published in 2016.[6]
According to The Bookseller, she earned a "strong five figure" advance in 2019 for a novel about climate change, entitled When the Lights Go Out.[6] The book was published in 2020.[7]
