Esther Freud, Author . Ecco $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-056549-7
Painter Lucian's daughter, Sigmund's great-granddaughter and an accomplished novelist herself (Hideous Kinky
), Freud invokes her father's family history in this splendidly written, evocative novel. Inspired by the letters of her...
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Esther Freud, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-06-134961-4
Freud, who is Sigmund Freud’s great-granddaughter and Lucien Freud’s daughter, echoes some of the autobiographical material that enlivened her debut and biggest success, Hideous Kinky
, in this sixth novel. Lara, 17, is already a veteran
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Esther Freud, Author Ecco Press $23.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-88001-585-1
Separated by chronology, history and geography, Eva Belgard and her granddaughter, Sarah Linder, exist vividly in the parallel plots of Freud's third novel, a bestseller in England. Eva is 11 in 1914, a German-Jewish girl who comes of age during WWI;
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Esther Freud, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-171608-1
Freud's second novel is a powerfully unconventional portrait of a London teenager struggling to build a life in a broken family plagued by poverty and drugs. Sixteen-year-old Lisa inhabits a derelict building called Peerless Flats with her aimless...
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Esther Freud. Bloomsbury, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62040-883-4
Freud (Hideous Kinky) adds her voice to the chorus marking the centenary of WWI with this novel inspired by an incident in the life of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It’s 1914 when Thomas Maggs, a 12-year-old boy growing up in a small...
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Esther Freud, Author, Esther Freud, Read by Audio Partners $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-099-4
In this semi-autobiographical novel based on her own childhood, Freud (Summer at Gaglow), tells the story of Julia, a hippie mother traveling with her young daughters, Lucia and Bea, through North Africa in the 1960s. (The girls, true to their...
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Esther Freud. Ecco, $16.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-063-05718-0
Freud’s beautiful and insightful latest (after Mr. Mac and Me) focuses on three generations of distinct and well-drawn women. In 1939, Aiofe Kelly marries the dashing Cashel. They run a London pub and send their daughters to a Catholic boarding...
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