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Susie Boyt FRSL (born January 1969) is a British novelist.
Life
Boyt is the daughter of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1992. As a student her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. She later trained as a bereavement counsellor.
Working variously at a PR agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, The Normal Man, which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London studying the works of Henry James and the poet John Berryman.
To date, she has published seven novels, the most recent being Loved and Missed (2021). In 2008, she published My Judy Garland Life, a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help. Her journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times. She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London.
Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Novels
- The Normal Man, 1995
- The Characters of Love, 1996
- The Last Hope of Girls, 2001
- Only Human, 2004
- The Small Hours, 2012
- Love & Fame, 2017
- Loved and Missed, 2021
Non-fiction
- My Judy Garland Life, 2008
Awards and nominations
- The Last Hope of Girls was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Only Human has been shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award
See also
References
- "Meet the Freuds by Sebastian Shakespeare and Olivia Cole". Evening Standard. 17 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
- "Susie Boyt: Scourge of the yummy mummy". The Independent. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- "Love & Fame by Susie Boyt – going through the emotions". The Guardian. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
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