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Born at midnight, fish were spotted on the ceiling, and language, all song and curlicues. Mother was a pretty ribbon, father, a painted merry-go-round horse. I hunted arrowheads, watched water-skeeters on the surface of a pond. I had a pet chameleon with half a tail that lived on my windowsill. Somewhat abstract, I loved swimming pools, the deep end, kissing boys on the high school hill, listening to the sound of distant trains in the middle of the night— I walked in hot mud ate pie cherries from a tree above a creek, was baptized for the dead, read Edgar Allen Poe, could crack codes, enter caves and sestinas. When asked, what do you want to be when you grow up? I always answered, “the weather girl.”

—Kathy Evans (Poem-A-Day, April 6, 2026)

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Kathryn Evans, author of 'More of Me' chats about strawberry farming, fencing, acting, writing and more!

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Shelfie Seven: Kathryn Evans, author of BEAUTY SLEEP and MORE OF ME

It’s three weeks until the launch of Kathryn Evans’ second YA novel BEAUTY SLEEP, in which 16 year old Laura is plunged into a futuristic world after 40 years asleep (think Black Mirror meets Malory Towers). We asked rainbow-haired author extraordinaire Kathryn to EXPRESS HERSHELF by answering our SHELFIE SEVEN QUESTIONS:

#1: Who’s your weirdest literary crush? It’s Edward from Thomas the Tank Engine. You did say weirdest…

#2: If Beauty Sleep was made into a film, who’d be your dream director? Who gets to be Laura? Obviously the director would have to be Charlie Brooker! I absolutely love the Black Mirror series, that sideways take on modern issues is exactly what I try and do in my books. As for actors, if I could have anybody – Amandla Stenberg has the exact mix of vulnerability and strength that I see in Laura.

#3: Where’s your favourite place to write? The place I get most done, believe it or not, is my hairdressers! It takes a long time to colour my hair so I take my laptop – with all those people watching me I daren’t faff about on facebook – plus, they bring me a constant supply of tea!

#4: You’ve been invited to the Hogwarts’ Yule Ball: what are you wearing? Oh wow! Something ice-blue with a huge skirt and silvery ivy leaves trailing from the shoulder, across the bodice and over the skirt, pumps for dancing, and my hair would be piled up and ice-blue too with glitter and a tiny silver top hat…and maybe some incy little fairy lights… I’ve thought about this way too much haven’t I? Waaaaaay too much.

#5: Which fictional character do you most closely identify with? Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Poor old Tess Durbeyfield – my life is nothing like hers but she was such a trier, I love that about her. And then there are the swishy skirts…

#6: You’re booking a holiday to a literary location, real or fantastical. Where do you go? Easy. The Weasleys’ kitchen. A home from home.

#7: You can travel back in time and give 16-year-old-you a book you’ve read recently; what do choose? What a brilliant question! I’m tempted to give her my first book More of Me because she’d be so so happy to know we finally got published but actually, I’m going to give her I am Malala, because I just think everyone should read it.