Hello and welcome to my website. I’m Catherine Yardley. I’m an author of women’s fiction and domestic noir. I write under Catherine Yardley and Catherine Balavage. Ember is out now and Where The Light is Hottest is out on February 27th. You can preorder here. I am also the editor-in-chief of Frost Magazine. As a freelance writer I have written for The Bookseller, Writer’s and Artist’s Yearbook, Mslexia, Metro UK, Huffpost and Writing Magazine. I have also featured in The Guardian, Newsweek and Glamour.

I grew up in Scotland and have lived in London for seventeen years.

Ember is a story about the intricate, fraught, and sometimes fragile bonds that hold us to the people we love. At the heart of this story is Natalie, who is struggling to come to terms with a difficult childhood and a deeply strained relationship with her estranged father. His attempts to reconcile with other family members create new tensions in those relationships, intensifying Natalie’s feelings of familial alienation. Yardley draws characters with such genuine emotional intensity and complexity that they feel very real to the reader, making the story hugely compelling. It unfolds with great tenderness and emotional astuteness. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Rosemary Hennigan, author of The Truth Will Out and The Favourites.

It took me six years to write my debut, Ember, and I will never forget that moment where I got my book deal. The reviews that Ember has made the world to me. It has a 4.8 rating on Amazon.

Writing and reading are my favourite things in the world. Ember was picked for Jules Swain’s book club, The JAS club. I am always eager to hear from book clubs and readers.