Author profile: Steve Cavanagh

AS a lawyer, Steve has conducted several high profile cases. In 2010, representing a factory worker, he won the largest award for damages in race discrimination in Northern Ireland’s legal history.

In his 20s, he wrote screenplays, but stopped when he couldn’t sell any. He didn’t write fiction for the next 15 years. He began after his mother died, quite suddenly.

“She was the one who got me into reading and encouraged me to write. I thought I’d have a go. I began writing when I wasn’t sleeping too well,” he says.