Rebecca Taylor McKay was born in West Yorkshire, a stone’s throw from Brontë Country, and named after Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel, Rebecca – so believes that her pull to the dark side of literature was inevitable. She currently lives in Calderdale with her husband and two teenagers, where she writes full-time. Rebecca was runner-up in Theatre Cloud’s Gothic Fiction Contest in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2022 Northern Writers Sid Chaplin Award for working-class writers. Her debut novel, The Honeymoon Suite, was longlisted for Discoveries 2022 and will be published in June.