Painkiller Addict (Kemp)

Author Bio
• Birth—1971
• Where—Surrey, UK
• Education—B.A., European Fine Art; M.A., National Council for
   Training of Journalists
• Awards—The Big Red Read Non Fiction Award;
   Nominated, Samuel Johnson Prize; Peter
   Wilson Award for Journalism
• Currently—lives on the Suffolk coast, UK


Cathryn Kemp is an award-winning journalist and writer. Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage To Redemption recently won The Big Red Read Non Fiction Award 2013 and was nominated for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize 2012.

Cathryn worked for The News of the World, The Mirror and The Sunday People before falling ill overnight in 2004. She has written and co-written several Lonely Planet guides including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Romania and Moldova and Eastern Europe. (From the publisher.)