Hideous Kinky

Esther Freud was born in London in 1963. From a well-known family – daughter of the painter Lucien Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud – she was an actress before dedicating herself to literature. Hideous Kinky, her first novel, was a finalist for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet. In 1993, she was on the prestigious British magazine's list of Best Young British Novelists. Granta.