Getting Away: The holiday read of a lifetime

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"Gripping - and profound... Kate Sawyer has a great gift for capturing the tiny details that tell us everything about a person or dynamic." -- Marian Keyes


Margaret Smith is at the beach.


It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known.


The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time.



Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end -- and secrets are revealed.


Coming this summer, Getting Away is a dazzlingly ambitious new novel from the author of Waterstones' Fiction Book of the Month, This Family, and the Costa shortlisted The Stranding.

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Gripping - and profound... -- Marian Keyes

Author Bio

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer, and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of two novels, most recently the critically acclaimed, Waterstones Fiction Book of The Month, This Family. Her debut novel, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch's production company Born In Me.

When Kate isn't writing, or talking to other authors about their writing practices for her podcast Novel Experience and as a chair for author events, she works at the Programme Curator for the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.

After twenty years living in London, she recently returned to her native East Anglia, where she lives with her young daughter.