![]() A travelogue-cum-memoir, it explores a particularly turbulent time a few years ago in Norbury’s life when, in her mid-40s, she was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after suffering a miscarriage, and then, two weeks after her bilateral mastectomies, received a curt letter from her birth mother (their first ever correspondence – Norbury was adopted as a baby) saying “she didn’t want anything to do with me”. The result is her first book, The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream, which was snapped up by Bloomsbury earlier this year and has already garnered praise from Sara Maitland and Philip Pullman, among others. “But suddenly I thought, ‘I’ve got something to say!’, so I started saying it – it was a very natural transition.” ![]() As an assistant film editor and script editor, “it had never occurred to me to write,” she says. ![]() ![]() “A lan Bleasdale, Harold Pinter, Anthony Minghella, Dennis Potter…” Katharine Norbury is sitting in the offices of Bloomsbury books, looking at the ceiling, and reeling off a list of writers she worked with during her 20 or so years in TV. ![]()
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