Will Carver
Will Carver spent his early years moving around Germany, changing home every 18 months as army kids so often do. One lunchtime, when he was 11, he was picked up from school and moved back to England.
In his teenage years, everything was about sport. He became a national-level sprinter and decathlete, but his heart belonged to rugby. At age 14, while playing, Carver broke his right leg and ankle in six places and was told he might never play again. Six weeks later he was back on the field – with one extremely skinny leg – battling for a place in the county team. He got in. Later that month he was scouted to play for Bath, the best team in the country and the team he had always supported.
Will turned down opportunities to play rugby professionally and opted not to accept an unconditional offer to art college to pursue his dream of being the first person in his family to go to university. He wanted to write plays and direct them. At university, he set up a successful (and profitable) theatre company but his degree managed to suck out all the love for theatre he had arrived with on that first day.
After university, there were a string of jobs in IT sales. Every day a small part of him died. He would write or read in his car during lunch hours, much to the chagrin of his colleagues. When Will’s team were told they would be losing their jobs, it was one of the happiest days he can remember. In that final month, when he was supposed to be working from home, he would log in on the work laptop to show that he was there but was writing a book on his personal laptop every day instead.
That book was called Girl 4 and would go on the become his first published work. Two more books followed, a novella and some short stories. Then Will disappeared for a few years, returning to his sporty ways, setting up his own fitness and nutrition company, before coming back the writing world with his new book, Good Samaritans.
Now, he divides his time between the fitness and the writing, working his body and his mind in those hours between the school runs and ferrying his kids around to various clubs in the area, thankful that, unlike his mother, he doesn’t yet have to drive all the way to Bath twice a week for rugby training.
Books by Will Carver
Maeve, a successful independent woman in a high-powered job, leads a pretty good life. But she is also an alcoholic and a sex addict and cannot stop killing men. When she fails to get support from an Alcoholics Anonymous group, she decides to set up her own.
Reviewed on 12 November 2022 by Ewa Sherman
