Join us at Mildenhall Library for a free author event with Esther Freud! Esther will be talking about her new novel My Sister and Other Lovers, as well as Suffolk being an inspiration for her novels, The Sea House and My Mac and Me, and a children’s book, Enchanted Beach which is going to be published this summer and is set on Walberswick Beach.

Tickets are free but booking is required. You can book online on TicketSource or contact the library on 01638 597292 to book your free place. Please arrive for the event by 18:45.

Esther Freud is the author of ten previous novels. Her first, Hideous Kinky, was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second book she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and her books have been translated into thirteen languages. Other titles include The Sea House, Mr Mac and Me, and I Couldn’t Love You More. Her first full length play, Stitchers, was produced in London in 2018, and she has a children’s book: Enchanted Book, out this year. Esther also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines and teaches creative writing in her own local group.

About My Sister and Other Lovers:

For as long as Lucy can remember, she’s been caught between loyalty to her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From her unsettled childhood to her turbulent teenage years, she’s been forced to make a choice.

But as the sisters come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – they find their lives, and their relationships, increasingly in turmoil.

Can the love they have for each other transcend the damage of the past? Or is the past too dangerous to examine?