Elizabeth Noble
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For the Noble Causes character, see Elizabeth Donnelly-Noble.
Elizabeth Noble (born 22 December 1968) is the author of seven novels: The Reading Group, The Friendship Test (previously published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were and Between a Mother and Her Child, all of which have reached The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers. Her novel The Reading Group reached number one.
Early life
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Elizabeth Noble was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire to a banker father and a homemaker mother. She is the middle child of three siblings. She was raised and educated in Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Toronto, Canada.
Education and early career
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Noble attended Hurtwood House School in Surrey and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where she graduated in 1990 with a BA Hons in English Language and Literature.
After university, she worked in a number of publishing companies, including Hodder & Stoughton, Scholastic Books, Harper Collins, and Reed Books, predominantly as a marketing executive.
Writing career
Noble's first novel, The Reading Group, was published in 2004, and went straight to number 1 in The Sunday Times bestsellers chart. Her subsequent novels The Friendship Test (previously published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were ('When You Were Mine'), Between a Mother and Her Child and "Letters to Iris" ("Love, Iris") have all made The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers list. She took a 6 year break from writing, to focus on her children, and to spend a few years living with her family in New York City, and her latest novel, The Family Holiday, was released in 2020.{{cite web |last1=Younger |first1=Rebecca |title=11 books that should be on your summer reading list |url=https://www.surreylife.co.uk/out-about/11-of-the-best-books-to-read-summer-2020-1-6776619 |website=Surrey Life |accessdate=13 September 2020 |language=en |date=13 August 2020}} Her novels are published worldwide, and widely translated. She also writes short stories, and has written articles for a number of newspapers and magazines.
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Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford