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Esther Freud


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
May 02, 1963

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Esther Freud was born in London in 1963. As a young child she travelled through Morocco with her mother and sister, returning to England aged six where she attended a Rudolf Steiner school in Sussex.

In 1979 she moved to London to study Drama, going on to work as an actress, both in theatre and television, and forming her own company with fellow actress/writer Kitty Aldridge - The Norfolk Broads.

Her first novel Hideous Kinky, was published in 1992 and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. In 1993, after the publication of her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was named by Granta as one of the Best of Young Novelists under 40.

She has since written seven novels, including The Sea Hous ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 47,533 ratings · 6,464 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors
Hideous Kinky
3.53 avg rating — 4,168 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions
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I Couldn't Love You More
3.72 avg rating — 2,225 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions
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Mr Mac and Me
3.66 avg rating — 2,059 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions
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Love Falls
3.11 avg rating — 994 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions
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The Sea House
3.46 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2003 — 32 editions
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Lucky Break
3.09 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions
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Summer at Gaglow
3.36 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1997 — 26 editions
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My Sister and Other Lovers
3.44 avg rating — 364 ratings — 2 editions
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The Wild
3.27 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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Peerless Flats
3.29 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions
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“Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.”
― Esther Freud
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“... a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.”
― Esther Freud, The Sea House
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“Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story”
― Esther Freud, Etchings
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