Esther Freud

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. She has since written six more novels, the most recent of which, Lucky Break, will be published in June 2010. She lives in London with her husband and three children.