About Jade

Jade Webb is a Cornish writer of literary fiction, psychological suspense and poetry.

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Born in London in 1985 and raised on the Cornish coast from the age of six, she writes about the lives people live quietly: family, control, survival, motherhood, grief, and the long work of becoming yourself after the worst has already happened.

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She is currently writing Heroine, her debut novel: a haunting blend of literary fiction and psychological suspense. It follows a girl who leaves chaotic 1980s London for Cornwall, only to watch a charismatic stranger take hold of her family. What begins as rescue becomes a shadow she must learn to name, and survive. Much of the story is rooted in lived experience. It is, at heart, about a young woman fighting to become the heroine of her own life.

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Before turning fully to fiction, Jade spent years as a social worker, standing beside people in some of the hardest seasons of their lives. She has also co-authored the professional textbook series The Handbook for Nurse Associates & Assistant Practitioners (under the name Jade Carter-Bennett). That work taught her how to write clearly about complicated human realities. Poetry taught her how to say the unsayable.

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Her debut collection, All The Things I Couldn’t Say Then, began as a private way through mental health, motherhood and healing. A upcoming second collection, All The Things You Took With You, follows grief as it actually behaves: looping, fracturing, refusing a neat ending.

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Jade writes so that difficult things can be spoken, and so that someone reading in the dark might feel a little less alone. She still lives in Cornwall, where the sea still finds its way into the work.