Katharine Light
BOOK ONE OF THE MILLINGHAM SERIES
Like Me - A contemporary love story
THE MILLINGHAM SERIES
After twenty years, two divorces, and five children, two teenage friends try to find happiness together.
When teenage friends meet again in their late thirties, she’s desperate to have a baby, and he decides to rise to the challenge.
You Too - Book Three
Available 2025
When a woman achieves what she thought she desperately wanted, she realises she’s lonelier than ever.
Not You - Book Four
Available 2026
A couple are forced to evaluate the shocking state of their marriage and confront their vow of ‘in sickness and in health’.
READERS WHO LOVE "LIKE ME"
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A heartwarming exploration of love across. The decades. Katharine skilfully unravels her characters’ past to help them forge meaningful relationships in the present.
REBEKAH LATTIN-RAWSTRONE
Author of HOME
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‘Life-affirming and witty, page-turning and poignant, Like Me celebrates the friends that walk with us along the rocky path from first love to second chances. Reading Like Me felt like a homecoming—a chance to hang out with old friends. Scenes from this novel have taken on the status of memories, as if I really knew these characters and was part of their lives. It was refreshing to read a novel so warm and humane.’
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‘…loved the relationship between Jess and Sam from the start…’
ANNE
BATH
EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY
Author of OWL SONG AT DAWN
BIO
Katharine Light was born in Glasgow and lived there until her family moved to South Manchester when she was ten. While in her teens, she began writing stories for her younger sister. These mostly centred around a naïve heroine and a 1980s pop star (some would say the hero was modelled on John Taylor of Duran Duran).
She did a degree in psychology at University College London, and after a year travelling, worked in corporate film production for several years, before taking a break to raise her children. During this time, she did two year-long writing courses with the Open University, and completed a first draft of Like Me, book one of The Millingham Series. She wrote mainly during the holidays, and around her busy work for a local church.
During 2018 and 2019 she studied on The Novel Studio course at City, University of London, focusing on Like Me. She recently won the competition City Writes, with her short story My arms are empty, which is based on an episode from Me Too, book two of the series. She was thrilled when Like Me was shortlisted for the Selfies Book Awards 2024.
Katharine lives in South-West London with her husband and quite often at least one of their adult children. She loves singing, walking, painting, looking at art, and going to the theatre.