My name is Carol Lovekin. I’m a writer of stories, a feminist & a flâneuse.
I’m published by Honno, the Welsh Women’s Press.
My stories touch on the Welsh Gothic & its most powerful motif: the ghost. They concern the nature of magic & how it threads through the fabric of our lives. I explore possibilities: the fine line between the everyday & the time-shifting world of enchantment. My books are also firmly rooted in reality. I write about family relationships: how people, women in particular, respond to loss & how they survive. I set my stories in Wales, where I’ve lived for several decades: a place whose legends & landscapes inform my writing.
My newest book, Only May was published on 19 May 2022.
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My third novel, Wild Spinning Girls was published
20th February 2020 & was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year
(Rhys Davies Trust) Fiction Award

‘Beautiful and utterly unforgettable’
Louise Beech
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Snow Sisters, my second novel, was published on 21st September 2017. It was chosen by the Welsh Books Council as their October Book of the Month (for independent shops.)
‘The author may have created a new genre, the lyrical Gothic.’
~ Eve Merrick-Williams
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Ghostbird, my first novel, was published in March 2016. It was a Guardian Readers’ Choice for 2016 & in the same year was longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize. Edna O’Brien was on the list – I’ll be dining out on that wee nugget forever…

‘Spellbinding’
Judith Kinghorn
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Follow me on twitter.com/carollovekin
Header photograph ©Janey Stevens
Just finished Snow Sisters. I enjoyed the atmosphere you created with Gull House and the relationship between the siblings and their mother. https://bookertalk.com/2017/11/12/snow-sisters-by-carol-lovekin/
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My apologies for not responding sooner. I read your review for which my sincere appreciation & thanks!
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No problem at all Carol. I’m just relieved you didn’t feel I was unfair about the book!
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Hi Carol, good to connect here as well. Hope all is going ok. Jx
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Amazing! If you are at the gathering on Monday in the Arts Centre, we can catch up. xXx
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