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Esther Freud


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Esther Freud was born in London in 1963.She trained as an actress before writing her first novel Hideous Kinky, published in 1991. Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. In 1993 she was chosen by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London with her husband and three children.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
June 2025

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Enchanted Beach
 
Novels
   Hideous Kinky (1992)
   Peerless Flats (1993)
   Meeting Bilal (1996)
   Gaglow (1997)
   Summer at Gaglow (1998)
   The Wild (2000)
   The Sea House (2003)
   Love Falls (2007)
   Lucky Break (2011)
   Mr Mac and Me (2014)
   I Couldn't Love You More (2021)
   My Sister and Other Lovers (2025)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Transference (2016)
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Series contributed to
Ox-Tales
   Ox-Tales:Water (2009) (with others)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Books containing stories by Esther Freud
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
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A Distant Cry (2002)
Stories from East Anglia
edited by
Peter Tolhurst

Awards
1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Esther Freud recommends
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There's Nothing Wrong with Her (2024)
Kate Weinberg
"Deep and dark and beautiful."
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Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024)
(Tuga Trilogy, book 1)
Francesca Segal
"What a treat to spend time in glorious Tuga, where birds are protected and ice pops handed out to children, where donkeys are ridden like communal bicycles, and Charlotte struggles to shake off the dilemma she arrives with. Moving and funny, and fabulously imagined, I was with her through every twist and turn."
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Devil's Breath (2023)
(Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery, book 1)
Jill Johnson
"A creeper vine of intrigue and suspense, with a most unlikely and engaging star detective at its heart."

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