Freya North – The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

With a career spanning 27 years, Freya North is one of the UK’s best loved authors of contemporary domestic drama. In her first visit to the Festival, Freya will give an insight into the life and career (and occasional frustrations!) of a best-selling novelist, and talk about her newly-released book The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne, a beautifully written, life-affirming story of growing up and finding yourself – even when your past won’t let you go.

Eadie Browne, an odd child with eccentric parents, lives next door to a cemetery in a small Garden City. Bullied at school, she is protected by her two best friends, Celeste and Josh, and her many imaginary friends lying six feet under. Arriving in Manchester as a student in the late 1980s, Eadie tastes freedom for the first time…until, one night, her past comes hurtling at her and she fears nothing will ever be the same again. A decade later, as the new Millennium beckons, Eadie contemplates all that is now and all that was then in this moving love-letter to youth.

Freya North has written 15 bestselling novels including her debut Sally, RNA award-winner Pillow Talk and The Turning Point. Her 2022 critically-acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller Little Wing was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Freya holds degrees in Art History from the University of Manchester and the Courtauld Institute. She founded and ran the Hertford Children’s Book Festival, has judged the Costa Book Awards and is a patron of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. She is also an ambassador for Bowel Cancer UK. Freya lives on a small farm in Hertfordshire with her dogs, horses and sheep and enjoys taking ceramics classes, riding her horses and cycling long distances.

BOOK TICKETS