Carys Bray

Carys Bray FRSL is a British writer whose 2014 debut novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was critically acclaimed. Bray is a lapsed Mormon, and A Song for Issy Bradley is about a Mormon family who undergo a crisis of faith.

Her second novel, The Museum of You, was published in 2016.

According to The Bookseller she earned a "strong five figure" advance, in 2019, for a novel about climate change, entitled When the Lights Go Out. The book was published in 2020.

Bray uses a treadmill desk, when writing.

Awards and honours

 * 2015: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
 * 2011: Scott Prize
 * 2010: Edge Hill Prize
 * 2023: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)