Elizabeth Noble
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Elizabeth Noble (born 22 December 1968) is the author of seven novels: The Reading Group, The Friendship Test (previously published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were and Between a Mother and Her Child, all of which have reached The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers. Her novel The Reading Group reached number one.
Early life[]
Elizabeth Noble was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire to a banker father and a homemaker mother. She is the middle child of three siblings. She was raised and educated in Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Toronto, Canada.
Education and early career[]
Noble attended Hurtwood House School in Surrey and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where she graduated in 1990 with a BA Hons in English Language and Literature.
After university, she worked in a number of publishing companies, including Hodder & Stoughton, Scholastic Books, Harper Collins, and Reed Books, predominantly as a marketing executive.
Writing career[]
Noble's first novel, The Reading Group, was published in 2004, and went straight to number 1 in The Sunday Times bestsellers chart. Her subsequent novels The Friendship Test (previously published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were ('When You Were Mine'), Between a Mother and Her Child and "Letters to Iris" ("Love, Iris") have all made The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers list. She took a 6 year break from writing, to focus on her children, and to spend a few years living with her family in New York City, and her latest novel, The Family Holiday, was released in 2020.[1] Her novels are published worldwide, and widely translated. She also writes short stories, and has written articles for a number of newspapers and magazines.
Personal life[]
Noble has been married since 1996 to David Young. The couple have two daughters, Tallulah Ellen (1997) and Ottilie Florence (1999). She is step-mother to a son from her husband's first marriage. She currently lives near Godalming in Surrey.
References[]
- ^ Younger, Rebecca (13 August 2020). "11 books that should be on your summer reading list". Surrey Life. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- 1968 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British novelists
- 21st-century British women writers
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- British women novelists
- People from High Wycombe
- British novelist stubs