Cassandra Parkin

Cassandra Parkin is a British crime fiction writer of seven novels, including The Summer We All Ran Away (2013), The Slaughter Man (2019), and Soldier Boy (2020).

Cassandra Parkin grew up in Hull and earned a MA in English Literature from York University. She says she has been writing fiction all her life — often as gifts for friends and family for Christmas and birthdays.

She debuted with the short story collection New World Fairy Tales in 2011. The book was long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize and is one of New Writing North’s “Read Regional” picks for 2012.

Later she switched to crime fiction. Her first criminality novel was The Winter’s Child (2017).

"For The Winter’s Child, I started with the thing that scares me the most, thought that one of my children could be lost and I would never know what had happened to them," Parkin said.

Her most recent release, Soldier Boy, tells with brutal honesty the family story touches on topics such as PTSD, war trauma, gender identity, burnout, and more.

Cassandra is also a member of Hull’s Women of Words collective, a monthly spoken-word event that invites women from Hull and the surrounding area to create and share their work in a supportive environment.

Cassandra Parkin is married with two children and lives in a small village in East Yorkshire.

Photo credit: Twitter @cassandrajaneuk

Quotes

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It won’t be easy, but so what? I love him and I’m happy. What else matters?”
“You look happy,” Diane admitted. “God, you even look like you belong. I feel like a complete freak! Literally everyone else here is famous. Everyone! I can see them looking at me and trying to work out who I am. How did you know who to invite?”
“Oh, I asked his manager. He said it was a good idea. Well, actually first of all he said he didn’t care if Jack was rotting away in a ditch. But I told him there was a new album, and then he said it was a good idea.”
“That’s hobnobbing,” said Diane. “My best friend is hobnobbing with music industry moguls. Crazy.” She picked up Evie’s left hand and played idly with her ring finger. “Any chance of...”
Evie laughed. “It’s still early days.”
“I bet he’s a handful to live with.”
“No, actually he’s great. Anyway, he’s working a lot of the time.”
Diane stroked the heavy brown
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“You’re too good to be true, you are.”
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“Jesus, Jack, if you die falling out of a tree I’ll...”

“Kill me?”
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