​KJ Lawrence’s first career was in publishing. A second career, in law, spanned a couple of decades before she decided it was time to make serious room for writing and photography.
 
She lives in London and Jersey, is an occasional, and fairly terrible, surfer and has lately become worryingly obsessed with a newly planted orchard.
 
KJ Lawrence has been making and selling pictures for many years, her first commission helping pay those pesky law school fees. The Cossack is her first novel.