Skip to main content

Kathleen West

Biography

Kathleen West

Kathleen West is a veteran school teacher. She graduated with a degree in English from Macalester College and holds a master’s degree in literacy education from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Minneapolis with her A+ human family and two B- dogs.

Kathleen West

Books by Kathleen West

by Kathleen West - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh’s surefire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over. Two decades later, Leigh is a successful investment banker and a happily married mother of a hockey prodigy. So when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. The move puts her in Susy’s orbit, but she believes keeping Susy at arms’ length is the only way to hide her history with her former coach, Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son’s ice time, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage, or play Jeff’s game.

by Kathleen West - Fiction, Women's Fiction

On the same day Alice Sullivan learns that her daughter is struggling in second grade, a call from her son’s school accusing him of bullying throws Alice into a tailspin. When it comes to light that the incident is part of a new behavior pattern for her son, one complete with fake social media profiles with a lot of questionable content, Alice’s social standing is quickly eroded to one of “those moms” who can’t control her kids. Soon she’s facing the very judgment she was all too happy to dole out when she thought no one was looking (or when she thought her house wasn’t made of glass). Then her mother unloads a family secret she’s kept for more than 30 years, and Alice’s entire perception of herself is shattered.

by Kathleen West - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Isobel Johnson is a devoted teacher who has spent her career in Liston Heights sidestepping the community’s high-powered families. But when she receives a threatening voicemail accusing her of Anti-Americanism and a liberal agenda, she’s in the spotlight. Meanwhile, Julia Abbott, a helicopter mom obsessed with the casting of Liston Heights High's winter musical, makes an error in judgment that has far-reaching consequences for her entire family. Brought together by the sting of public humiliation, Isobel and Julia learn firsthand how entitlement and competition can go too far, thanks to a secret Facebook page created as an outlet for parent grievances.