Kay Brellend

Kay Brellend is the best selling author of historical novels set in London's working class communities. She was born in north London and her first saga, based in the early twentieth century slums of Islington, was published in 2011. She drew inspiration for The Street from her grandmother’s reminiscences about growing up in ‘Campbell Bunk’ as the notorious road was known.

The ensuing Campbell Road series of seven book was followed by more gritty East End and World War sagas, but she has turned to the Victorian era for the Match Factory Girls trilogy, published by Boldwood and set in the time of the infamous Whitechapel murders.

Kay's heartwarming and emotional historical sagas champion working class community spirit and resilient women courageously coping with poverty and loss despite the odds stacked against them.