Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Women's Prize for Fiction (previously the Bailey's Prize and the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.
The third instalment in the irresistible seasons series sees the bestselling author of the Joubert Family Chronicles celebrate the shifting light and crisp mornings of autumn, as well as vividly recollect her Sussex childhood.