20 Questions With Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse - not that Kate Moss - is a leading figure in women's literature. She co-founded the Women's Prize for Fiction in 1996 and has gone on to become a bestselling author herself. Her books have sold millions of copies, been translated into 38 languages and been published in more than 40 countries. Labyrinth is her best known work and she has just released The Ghost Ship, the third in a four book series, that can be read as a stand-alone. Here she discusses historical fiction, the untold stories of women, why she set up a prize for female writers, what it's like sharing her name phonetically with a supermodel, caring for her mother-in-law, Granny Rosie, who went viral during the pandemic, the undervaluing of carers in Britain, why miscarriages still aren't talked much about (her mother had miscarriages before she, Kate, was born very prematurely), the love story she shares with her husband, and the joys of being a grandmother.