Esther Freud

The leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh's most recent novel, Only in London, was shortlisted for the 2001 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Also a short-story writer and playwright, she pays particular attention in her work to women's role in society and the relationship between the sexes. Hanan ... (more)was just seven years old when her mother, Kamila, sought a divorce from her father, who ran a strictly religious household. She will discuss her memoir The Locust and The Bird: My Mother's Story with Esther Freud, the author of Hideous Kinky and The Sea House, whose work has been translated into 13 languages. All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141. Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only). Supported by: * The British Museum * Arts Council England * The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Admission €8.00/€6.00. "Absent fathers, family secrets and the tidal pull of childhood memory: family dynamics are rarely far from the surface in the latest novels from Linn Ullmann and Esther Freud. Perhaps not surprising given their respective pedigrees: Ullmann is daughter of Ingmar Bergmann and ... (more)Liv Ullmann; Freud is daughter of Lucian and great-granddaughter of Sigmund."