Annabel Abbs lives in London with her husband and four children. Her bestselling debut novel, THE JOYCE GIRL, won the Impress Prize for New Writers and was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the Waverley Good Read Award and the Caledonia Novel Award, as well as being translated into multiple languages. Her second novel, FRIEDA, was The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month and is available in paperback, eBook and audiobook now (Two Roads). Annabel herself was shortlisted for the Gladstones Library Writers in Residence 2020.