Hannah Begbie studied Art History at Cambridge University, and went on to become a talent agent, representing BAFTA and Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning writers and comedians for fifteen years.Her debut novel, Mother, won the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for new writing and has been optioned by the BAFTA-winning Clerkenwell Films for adaptation into a television drama.She lives in north London with her husband and their two sons.

‘Such a bloody brilliant book… rare to find something that is both hilarious and moving’ Eva Rice

Hannah Begbie studied Art History at Cambridge University, and went on to become a talent agent, representing BAFTA and Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning writers and comedians for fifteen years.Her debut novel, Mother, won the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for new writing and has been optioned by the BAFTA-winning Clerkenwell Films for adaptation into a television drama.She lives in north London with her husband and their two sons.

‘Such a bloody brilliant book… rare to find something that is both hilarious and moving’ Eva Rice