Annabel Abbs - Writer, walker, blogger and mother of 4. Her latest book, Windswept, uncovers long distance female walkers of the past.

<div>Annabel Abbs is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She grew up in Wales and Sussex, with stints in Dorset, Bristol and Hereford. Daughter of academic and poet, Peter Abbs, she has a degree in English Literature from the University of East Anglia and a Masters from the University of Kingston. She lives with her family in London and Sussex, and is a Fellow of the Brown Foundation.</div> <div> </div> <div>Annabel’s debut novel, <em>The Joyce Girl</em>, won the 2015 Impress Prize for New Writing and the 2015 Spotlight First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the 2015 Caledonia Novel Award, the 2015 Bath Novel Award and the 2016 Waverton Good Read Award. It was a Reader Pick in <em>The Guardian</em> 2016 and was one of ten books selected for presentation at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. Published across the world, Annabel discussed <em>The Joyce Girl</em> on BBC Radio 4’s <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l0j1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l0j1&source=gmail&ust=1635732433192000&usg=AFQjCNHv80ezkeZpdR_us0YRGm0CSyCEOw"><strong><em>Soul Music</em></strong></a>. It is currently being adapted for the stage.</div> <div> </div> <div>Her second novel, <em>Frieda: The Originial Lady Chatterley,</em> was a <em>Times Book of the Month</em>, then a <em>Times Book of the Year</em> 2018 and one of five novels selected for presentation to film directors at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair. Frieda has been translated into six languages. Annabel spoke about <em>Frieda</em> on <em>BBC Woman’s Hour</em>.</div> <div> </div> <div>Annabel’s third novel, the story of Eliza Acton, Britain’s first domestic goddess, and a best-selling cookery book writer (and a poet) will be published in the US in October 2021, by William Morrow as <em>Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen</em>. In the UK, the novel was acquired at auction by Simon & Schuster, and will be published in spring 2022 as <em>The Language of Food</em>. It is currently being translated i