Katie Ward is an award-winning author from Suffolk, UK. Her new novel, Pathways, is published by Fleet (Little, Brown UK 2024). Pathways is contemporary fiction about Cara, a neuroscientist trying to make a contribution to the field, and Heather, her almost-stepdaughter, trying to find ways to express herself. Set partly in the research labs of Cambridge and partly on the luminous streets of Las Vegas, these two different worldviews seem irreconcilable. Fascinating, perceptive, and intimate, Pathways is a novel of both the heart and the head.

Katie’s debut novel, Girl Reading, was published in the UK (Virago 2011), US (Scribner 2012), and South Korea (박하 Bakha 2014). It was a Cactus TV Book Club selection and a book of the week on Oprah.