Karen Woods

Mother of four Karen Woods uses her experiences of growing up on a Manchester council estate in her writing. Having left school with no qualifi cations, Karen spent her formative years raising children and suffering domestic abuse. This is her tenth novel.
Since taking up writing Karen has been snapped up by a leading literary agent and her fi rst novel, Broken Youth, was performed as a play at Salford's Lowry Theatre in June 2013. Another of her novels, 'Teabags and Tears' hit the stage in...