KITTY WILSON

Kitty Wilson’s Cornish Village School series has been a huge hit with lovers of romantic comedy, but what route did Kitty take on her journey to becoming a traditionally published novelist?

‘I have always wanted to write,’ she says. ‘I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t an ambition. I was an early reader (although probably not at the age of two, as my mother claims), and I have always made up stories in my head, if only to escape the stifling boredom of enforced childhood walks.

‘My mother is both an artist and an art teacher, and has always been terribly creative. As a child, I remember one woman at Brownies sniffing and saying: “Of course, your mother is very arty, isn’t she?”