Sophie Keetch is a Welsh novelist who has done something rather bold: she has taken one of literature’s most maligned villainesses and handed her the pen. A graduate of Cardiff University, where she read English Literature and first fell under the spell of Arthurian legend, Keetch writes from the green heart of South Wales, close to the very landscapes her stories inhabit.
Her gift is for reclamation. Where centuries of storytelling cast Morgan le Fay as a scheming enchantress, Keetch reimagines her as a clever, wounded, fiercely intelligent woman navigating a world built by and for men. The result is historical fantasy with a beating feminist heart: atmospheric, emotionally exact, and steeped in the chivalric colour of Camelot without ever losing sight of the human cost beneath the magic.
Her arrival was no quiet affair. Morgan Is My Name, her debut, became a number one Audible bestseller and was named among the Sunday Times’ best historical fiction of 2023, marking Keetch as one of the most assured new voices in mythic retelling.