Carys Bray was born into a strict Mormon family in Southport, Merseyside in 1975. She spent her childhood in Devon and was awarded a scholarship to the Mormon University in Utah when she was 19 but returned to England before finishing her degree.

She married a fellow Mormon when she was 20 and had five children in seven years, her second child died in 1999 as a result of an inherited metabolic disease. In her early thirties Carys replaced religion with writing and in 2010 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at ... Learn more