WIN $150 GIFT VOUCHERS: ALADDIN'S GOLD
Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel Hideous Kinky, published in 1992. Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. In 1993 Esther Freud was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. She has since written seven other novels, including The Sea House, Love Falls and Mr Mac and Me, which won the East Anglian Book Award for Fiction 2015. She also writes stories, articles and travel pieces for newspapers and magazines, and teaches creative writing at the Faber Academy. Esther Freud lives in London and Suffolk. www.estherfreud.co.uk @estherfreudrite
Freud is a modern literary rarity: a born storyteller, poetic but never overwrought; thoughtful but never showy * THE TIMES * As close to a perfect novel as anything I've read in a long time -- ANN PATCHETT Full of pitch-perfect observation, spiced with wry humour * OBSERVER * You know how it is when a writer draws into a place and you begin to feel it is more substantial than the one around you? That is how this book was for me. I truly loved it -- RACHEL JOYCE In a culture which dins with brashness and self-advertisement, attending to Esther Freud's still, truthful voice becomes not only a pleasure but a necessity -- JONATHAN COE A highly talented writer * INDEPENDENT * She describes monumental life events simply, which makes them more powerful -- SOPHIE DAHL
