Biography
Kate Walker was born the spring of 1950 in Nottinghamshire, England, but the family moved to West Yorkshire when she was just 18 months old. She was the middle child of five daughters.
She studied English and Library Science in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she met her husband. They married and installed in Lincolnshire She worked until she was a mother.
Kate Walker published her first novel in 1984.
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