S1, E6: The Literary Edit Podcast with Esther Freud

For the sixth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the brilliant former actress, playwright, writer and author, Esther Freud. Her first book, the semi-autobiographical Hideous Kinky, was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. She is the author of eight other critically acclaimed books. You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingles Wilder Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Strange Eventful History: The dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Other books we spoke about included Rebecca, The Hobbit, The Shell Seekers, Hideous Kinky, I Couldn’t Love You More, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Gone with the Wind and Shadow Play by Joseph O’Connor. If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice. To contact me, email [email protected]   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit   Twitter: @thelitedit