Robert Verity

Robert Verity grew up in Yorkshire, one of three brothers. He read sociology at Nottingham University and then gained a master's degree from York. Most of his working life has been in the Probation Service which was both challenging and satisfying.
He won the poetry prize at the Tonbridge Arts Festival in 2012 and has had a poem published in an anthology of contemporary work entitled Links in the Chain.
He was involved in various writing groups in Kent before moving with his partner to live in the Medoc area of France.
French Leave is his debut novel