Carys Bray Explained

Carys Bray
Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Nationality:British
Occupation:Novelist
Awards:Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Scott Prize; Edge Hill Prize

Carys Bray FRSL is a British writer whose 2014 debut novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was critically acclaimed. Bray is a lapsed Mormon, and A Song for Issy Bradley is about a Mormon family who undergo a crisis of faith.

Her second novel, The Museum of You, was published in 2016.

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. The book was published in 2020.[1]

Bray uses a treadmill desk, when writing.

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. News: Berwick . Isabel . 2020-12-07 . When the Lights Go Out by Carys Bray — climate anxiety . Financial Times . 2023-11-13.
  2. Web site: Carys Bray - Literature . literature.britishcouncil.org . 1 May 2020.
  3. News: Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows. Ella. Creamer. The Guardian. 12 July 2023.