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Kit de Waal LIVE appeared live at ALSO25, courtesy of the foundation, as she discussed her unforgettable and gorgeously redemptive new book, The Best of Everything - a novel about the love that can steal into our lives, in spite of the best laid plans. Kit is a bestselling, prize-winning author of the novels My Name Is Leon (which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and recently adapted as a film for BBC Two), The Trick to Time (which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction), a short story collection, Supporting Cast, the memoir Without Warning and Only Sometimes (which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards). She is also editor of the Common People anthology, and co-founder of the Big Book Weekend festival.