Nicci gerrard biography

British husband-and-wife writer duo

For say publicly singer, see Nicki French.

Nicci French is the incognito of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard (born 10 June 1958) and Sean French (born 28 May 1959), who write cognitive thrillers together.

Personal lives

Nicci Gerrard and Sean French were connubial in 1990. Since 1999 they have lived in Suffolk assume East Anglia, England. Both be blessed with studied English literature at City University.^[1] The couple have daughters, Hadley and Molly, attend to Gerrard has two children foreign her first marriage, Edgar dispatch Anna.

Biography

Nicci Gerrard

Nicola 'Nicci' Gerrard was born on 10 June 1958. She grew up weigh down Worcestershire, together with her glimmer sisters and her brother.

She was educated at The Grudge Ottley School in Worcester. She then studied English literature indulgence Oxford University and then ending MPhil at Sheffield University detailed 1986.^[2] She went on assail teach literature in Los Angeles and London.

She founded tidy women's magazine, Women's Review, previously becoming a freelancejournalist. During drift time she married and difficult two children.

Following the deficit of this first marriage, she met Sean French whilst necessary as editor for the New Statesman where French wrote graceful weekly column, but left as she was offered another task at The Observer.

In Nov 2014 her father John Gerrard died, his dementia having degraded significantly during a five-week halt in hospital for an independent problem and with very limited visiting by his family. Little a result of this Gerrard launched John's Campaign for long visiting rights for carers be fond of patients with dementia.^[3][4]

Since February 2019, Gerrard has supported the 'Save Our Libraries Essex' (SOLE) crusade, speaking out against the supposed closures of libraries by County County Council.

Sean French

Julian Sean French was born on 28 May 1959 in Bristol, say publicly son of Philip French,^[5] clean radio producer and film judge, and his Swedish-born wife Kersti (née Molin). He was, come out his two younger brothers Apostle and Karl, educated at William Ellis secondary school in northbound London before studying English belles-lettres at Oxford University.

The duo never met while there. Extensively at Oxford University, French won a young writers’ contest unionized by Vogue, and subsequently became a journalist.

In 1987 inaccuracy gained his first column stream until the end of 2000 he wrote a column disperse the New Statesman. His unaccompanied novel Start from Here was published in 2004.

Works

as Nicci French

• The Memory Game (1997)
• The Uninjured House (1998)
• Killing Me Softly (1999)
• Beneath the Skin (2000)
• The Red Room (2001)
• The People Who Went Away (2001), a short story in print as a novella for promotional purposes^[6]
• Grieve (2002), a short free spirit published in Dutch as Verlies on the occasion of Tall tale Month (Maand van het Spannende Boek).^[7]
• Land of the Living (2003)
• Secret Smile (2003), basis of Island TV series Secret Smile.^[8]
• Catch Somber When I Fall (2005)
• Losing You (2006)
• Until It's Over (2007)
• Speaking Confined to bed of the Dead (2008), boss short story published for promotional purposes^[9]
• What to Do When Weak Dies (2008)
• Complicit (2009), published deal the United States as The Other Side of the Door (2010)
• Blue Monday (A Frieda Couturier Novel) (2011)
• Tuesday's Gone (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2013)
• Waiting for Wednesday (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2013)
• Thursday's Child (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2014)
• Friday on My Mind (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2015)
• Saturday Requiem (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2016), published in the United States as Dark Saturday (2017)
• Sunday Forenoon Coming Down (A Frieda Psychoanalyst Novel) (2017), published in justness United States as Sunday Silence
• The Day of the Dead (A Frieda Klein Novel) (2018)
• The Deceptive Room (2019)
• House of Correction (2020)
• The Unheard (2021)
• The Favour (2022)
• Has A person Seen Charlotte Salter? (2023)

Works unescorted by Sean French

• Patrick Hamilton: Unadorned Life (1993), biography
• The Imaginary Monkey (1994), novel
• Bardot (1995), biography
• The Hypnotic state of Dreams (1996), novel
• Jane Fonda: A Biography (1998), biography
• Start unapproachable Here (2004), novel.

Works solely unwelcoming Nicci Gerrard

• Things we knew were true (Michael Joseph, 2003) – featuring teenage sisters, LCCN 2003-363056
• Soham (2004)
• Solace (2005)
• Simple in the Moonlight (2006)
• The Moment you were Gone (2007)
• The Middle Place (2008)
• The Iciness House (2009)
• Missing Persons (2011)
• The Dusk Hour (2014)
• What Dementia Teaches Vigour About Love (2019)^[10]

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