Esther Freud

• Jul-1992
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Called "a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination" by the New York Times Book Review and the inspiration for the film starring Kate Winslet.Escaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daug...

• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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Sixteen-year-old Lisa has high hopes of imitating her older sister Ruby during her first years in London. Ruby's shady past and rockabilly boyfriend indicate to Lisa a life lived to the fullest. But as her family's prospects start to look bleak, L...

• Jun-1999
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Sarah is already in her late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

• Jun-2001
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It is the 70's. In an old bakery converted into a home, two single-parent families have come together under one roof. For nine-year-old Tess it is a new start and she sees in William -- the tall, blond guitar-playing father of three -- both the fathe...

• Jul-2001
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This novel interweaves the story of Sarah, a pregnant, out-of-work actress, with that of her ancestors in Germany at the time of World War I. For it is only now, as long-since confiscated estate of Gaglow is about to be returned, that the generations...

• Apr-2004
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“Unexpected and satisfying.” -- New York NewsdayThe architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann’s death in t...

• Jun-2007
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The highly praised author of Hideous Kinky, returns with a searing and sensuous tale young love set amid the heat and beauty of a Tuscan summerThe Independent calls Esther Freud “the best writer on childhood we have.” In Love Falls this brilliant...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the nervous students huddled in a circle are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the stage. But outside is ...

• Feb-2015
• / Literary
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It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs, son of the local publican, lives with his parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. Life is quiet--shaped by the seasons, fishing and farming, the summer ...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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A short story by Esther Freud from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Transference’, a woman in a troubled relationship is drawn to her enigmatic therapist.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reade...

• Jul-2021
• / Literary
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A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past It’s London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly -- once the sparkling object of young men’s affecti...

• Jun-2025
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In her first picture book, a renowned novelist weaves a gentle environmental message into a lyrical ode to family life at the seaside through the changing seasons.It’s stormy and the beach is whipped. Ridged and raked, the dune’s a cliff....

• Aug-2025
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A stirring novel from the author of I Couldn’t Love You More and Hideous Kinky: the story of two sisters who couldn’t be more different and the great love that holds them together throughout a tumultuous youthFor as long as Lucy can r...