Cate Sweeney is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 author and playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

, whose plays have been produced around the country. Her first novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

, Selfish Jean, was released by Macmillan New Writing

Macmillan New Writing

Macmillan New Writing is an imprint of the British publishing company Pan Macmillan. Designed to attract previously unpublished authors, it offers aspiring novelists 20% of royalties from the sale of their book but no advance on signing...

in April 2006, we will be expecting more from Cate in near time. A new look at the process of adoption and the twists it can take, it contains two stories that collide in a surprising manner.
Sweeney is involved in volunteer work for a theatre group called Shed:MK, a group that integrates fully able and disabled children in staged dramatic performances. She has written many of their plays.