Kit
Kit Whitfield
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'An astonishing book set in a world of werewolves... This first novel sinks the teeth in and doesn't open its jaws until the last page.' The Independent
Female
32 years old
East
United Kingdom
Last Login: 8/2/2009
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Kit's Interests
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| Music |
Songs, mostly.
Ella Fitzgerald
Bessie Smith
Eva Cassidy Nick Cave Leonard Cohen Nina Simone, The Dubliners (I keep discovering bits of my childhood in there) Astrud Gilberto Creedence Clearwater Revival (when I need to bounce) Mariza (the Fado woman who rules) um ... where’s my ipod? Bach Mozart Louis Armstrong ... Please don't quiz me on any of this, though. I don't know anything very clever or detailed on any of these people, I just listen to their stuff.
| | Movies |
Night of the Hunter
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (the Mamoulian one)
Heavenly Creatures
Hannah and her Sisters
Lilo and Stitch (makes me cry, I'm a sap)
Citizen X (most honourable serial killer film ever made)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
My Neighbour Totoro (you have to see it)
Spirited Away
Capturing the Friedmans
Old Hollywood musicals, ones with Fred and Ginger, or Judy Garland dancing...
Unforgiven (perfectly structured tragedy, and best ever on-screen afterword at the end)
The Company of WolvesRosemary's Baby LA ConfidentialDas ExperimentL'Enfant Sauvage
AlienThe Emperor's New GrooveThe Wallace and Gromit moviesPan's Labyrinth
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Oh, see, here's where I get confused. I have enough books that shelf space is the major consideration when I move house. What to do? Right:
Books by:
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison
Antonia White
Alice Hoffman
Sarah Waters
Jane Austen
M.R. James
Amy Tan
David Sedaris
P.G. Wodehouse
James Herriot
Gillian Bradshaw
Terry Pratchett
Naomi Wolf
Dr Seuss
Beverly Cleary
Jonathan Stroud
Donna Tartt
and, um, lots of others.
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| Status: | Engaged | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
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About me:
Welcome to the official MySpace page for the writer Kit Whitfield.
I'm the author of Bareback, also known as Benighted, for those of you in the audience who can't keep a straight face when they hear the word 'bareback'(I'm looking at you, America.). Formerly an editor, having also in my time been a toy shop assistant, website editor, freelance copywriter and occasional broke person, I now write full time.
Rights to my first novel have sold to Warner Brothers. It's published by Random House in the UK and US, and by other companies in China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Sweden. My agent is Sophie Hicks of Ed Victor Ltd.
About The Book
Biology is destiny
If Lola Galley hadn't been born a bareback, her life would have been normal: a regular job, a place in the world, and a comfortable shelter to lock herself up in every full moon night. But Lola was one of the unlucky ones: she was born head first. That makes her a non, a skin, a cripple shut out from the transformation that ninety-nine per cent of the population undergo every month.
Being a bareback means working for DORLA, the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity: patrolling the silent night every full moon, bringing in the curfew breakers, dealing with any laws they break, trying not to despair when your friends and collagues are injured, and trying to hold your head high when the rest of society curses you.
Lola's not yet thirty, but she's endured enough to wear anyone down. When she gets assigned a client named Ellaway to defend, she's not happy: Ellaway maimed a friend of hers, Johnny Marcos, a man with three children who never hurt anyone in his life. She doesn't care for Ellaway, but she's a professional, and she can manage.
Then, before Ellaway can come to trial, Johnny is murdered.
Lola wants justice for Johnny. She'll settle for the truth. But in a world fragmented by prejudice and violence, asking for the truth may bring answers you don't want to hear . . .
Interests
Mostly, reading, writing and talking yer ear off. I’m also very much in favour of plants, gardening, zoos, petting neighbours’ cats, walking in parks and generally getting some flora and fauna in. Trained at various times as a chef and a masseur, both of which I now only do at home. Prepared to argue the toss about writing, publishing, art in general, feminism, and generally speaking why people do the peculiar things they do, in a polite sort of way.
Television
Anything with David Attenborough in it, or other good nature documentaries, Oz, Early Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Cracker, Jeeves and Wooster, Um, Supernanny (it always works out happily and then I feel better), HBO in general,
Any documentary that catches my attention when I’m channel-flipping,
Heroes
I don’t know. The bravest people I’ve seen don’t think they’re heroes. They just do things because they feel they ought to be done, whether they’re frightened or not. Heroism is doing something that makes you frightened for yourself, because you’re also frightened for somebody else.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Nice people.
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