Karen PowellKaren Powell was born in Rochester, Kent. She left school at 16 but returned to education as a mature student to study English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in North Yorkshire. An early draft of The Rver Within was awarded a Northern Writers' TLC 'New Fiction Reads' prize, which seeks to support work-in-progress by new, emerging and established writers across the North of England. Read More Read Less