Cathy Woodman

Cathy Woodman won the Harry Bowling Prize in 2002 for her first novel, Under the Bonnet, which was snapped up by Headline. Her four contemporary romantic sagas, full of the comedy and drama of the ups and downs of family life, earned her many fans and were reissued in 2018.

Working as a vet was the ideal inspiration for Cathy’s bestselling series for Century/Arrow, which began with bestselling Trust Me I’m a Vet, which was published by Hyperion books in the US as City Girl, Country Vet. There are now ten books in the series, the most recent being Springtime at Cherry Tree Cottage.

Under a new name, Evie Grace, Cathy has now written a series of historical sagas set in rural Kent:  The Maids of Kent series: Half a Sixpence, Her Mother’s Daughter and A Place to Call Home, the novels, Thimbleful of Hope (in Dover) and The Seaside Angel (in Margate). Her latest series centres on a smuggler’s family in mid 19th-century Deal: The Lace Maiden, The Golden Maid and The Smugglers Wife. The stories are based on those of her own family, who lived there in the nineteenth century.

Cathy lives in Devon, where she works part-time as a vet.