Esther Freud - You're Booked You're Booked

This week we're delighted to welcome the legendary novelist, playwright, performer, journalist and teacher Esther Freud to You're Booked. Esther is the author of nine novels, her first Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and turned into a hit film starring Kate Winslet. Her latest is the captivating I Couldn't Love You More. We talked to her about the pain of book gifting, the genius of Jean Rhys, the power of poetry and the hilarity of Maria Semple.
BOOKS
Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky
Esther Freud - I Couldn’t Love You More
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Slipstream
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie
Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring
Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
George Orwell - Essays
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Nicole Krauss - To Be a Man
Nicole Krauss - History of Love
Sylvia Townsend Warner - English Climate
Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories
Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams
David Szalay - Turbulence
Lucia Berlin - Manual for Cleaning Women
Mhairi McFarlane - Here’s Looking at You
Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
Andrew Sean Greer - Less
Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love
Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives
Maria Semple - This One is Mine
Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Robert Louis Stevenson - Jekyll and Hyde
Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
Ann Patchett - Dutch House
Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
Jay Bernard - Surge
WB Yeats - Collected Poems

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