Susie Boyt (born January 1969) is a British

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. Boyt is the daughter of Suzy Boyt and artist

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and

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. Boyt was educated at Channing and at

Camden School for Girls The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist- ...

and read English at

St Catherine's College, Oxford St Catherine's College (colloquially called St Catz or Catz) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and is the newest college admitting both undergraduate and graduate students. Tracing its roots back to 1868 (although th ...

, graduating in 1992. As a student her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. She later trained as a bereavement counsellor. Working variously at a PR agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, ''The Normal Man'', which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

studying the works of

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

and the poet

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

. To date, she has published six novels. In 2008, she published ''My Judy Garland Life,'' a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help. Her journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the

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. She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London.

Novels

* '' The Normal Man'', 1995 * '' The Characters of Love'', 1996 * '' The Last Hope of Girls'', 2001 * '' Only Human'', 2004 * '' The Small Hours'', 2012 * '' Love & Fame'', 2017

Non-fiction

* '' My Judy Garland Life'', 2008

Awards and nominations

* ''The Last Hope of Girls'' was shortlisted for the

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and publis ...

* ''Only Human'' has been shortlisted for the

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Book of the Year Award

References

Living people 1969 births British people of German-Jewish descent

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People educated at Camden School for Girls Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford Alumni of University College London Writers from London 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers British women novelists 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists {{UK-novelist-stub

Novels

Non-fiction

Awards and nominations

See also

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