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Esther Freud

Author of Hideous Kinky

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Works by Esther Freud

Hideous Kinky (1992) 963 copies
The Sea House (2003) 263 copies
Mr. Mac and Me (2014) 228 copies
Gaglow (1997) 204 copies
Love Falls (2007) 200 copies
Peerless Flats (1993) 138 copies
Lucky Break (2011) 138 copies
The Wild (2000) 106 copies
I Couldn't Love You More (2021) 89 copies
Lucian Freud : etchings (2000) 8 copies
Hoeveel ik van je hou (2023) 3 copies
Stitchers (2018) 2 copies
Desire 1 copy

Associated Works

The Summer Book (1972) — Foreword, some editions — 2,963 copies
A Winter Book (1998) — Afterword, some editions — 586 copies
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre (2016) — Contributor — 297 copies
Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (1993) — Contributor — 177 copies
Ox-Tales: Water (2009) — Contributor — 69 copies
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond (2019) — Contributor — 66 copies
In bed with … (2008) — Contributor — 56 copies
Hideous Kinky [1998 film] (1999) — Original book — 28 copies
A Day in the Life (2003) — Contributor — 14 copies
A Distant Cry: Stories from East Anglia (2002) — Contributor — 12 copies

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I normally love Esther Freud's writing - she's up there as one of my favourite authors - but this book was so poor compared to her other novels.

I don't know if her publishers put the squeeze on her or something, but this is such a mass market read with a cliched storyline centred around a woman forced into an Irish convent for unmarried mothers and the impact on her mother's and daughter's lives. There were none of the hallmarks of Freud's usual turn of phrase, and the storyline was horribly confused - halfway through and I still wasn't sure who was who, and from the reviews on Amazon I wasn't the only one.

2.5 stars - hugely disappointing. I hope this is not the kind of writing we're going to see from Freud going forward.
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AlisonY | 6 other reviews | Sep 29, 2023 |
Adembenemend mooi boek over een jonge vrouw die bevalt in een klooster en haar dochter ter adoptie moet afstaan. Je leest het verhaal van drie personages: Aiophe (de moeder), Rosmalen en Katie die eigenlijk Isabelle heet. Alle drie de vrouwen hebben een intense relatie met hun man.
 
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elsmvst | 1 other review | Aug 8, 2023 |
Beautifully written, interesting believable characters - but a bit hard to follow the plot / time line
 
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MiriamL | 12 other reviews | Nov 11, 2021 |
This is a tender and heart-rending tale that follows three generations of mothers and daughters from 1939 to 1991. Their sorrow from their loss of contact with their daughters is delicately and movingly revealed as their stories unfold in alternating chapters following Aoife, her daughter Rosaleen and in turn, her daughter Kate. But the love is not only shared between the daughters, as there are some men in their lives who play key roles in giving them help at crucial times. The stories moves from Ireland to London and then to Sussex and the lives and regrets of the three are hauntingly described in Esther Freud’s deeply enchanting and compelling writing, which reverberates long after the final page is turned.… (more)
 
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