Rebecca Abrams

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Rebecca Abrams (born 1963 in Cambridge ) is a British journalist and writer.

Life

Rebecca Abrams attended public schools in England, Newnham College , Cambridge and Nuffield College , Oxford. Her first novel, Touching Distance , was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize in 2009 and won the Medical Journalists' Association Award for Fiction.

Her guide books Three Shoes, One Sock & No Hairbrush (guide for parents who want a second child) and When Parents Die achieved a great response.

The University of Oxford employed her as a tutor in the Masters course in Creative Writing . She had a column in the Daily Telegraph and is a regular literary critic for the Financial Times .

Abrams also lived in the USA and Switzerland and now lives in Oxford with his husband and two children.

Fonts

  • Touching Distance . London: Pan Macmillan 2008
  • Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush . London: Cassell, 2001
  • The Playful Self: Why Women Need Play in their Lives . London: Fourth Estate 1997
  • Woman In a Man's World: Pioneering Career Women of the Twentieth Century . London: Methuen, 1993
  • When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent . London: Routledge, 1991. New edition 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Abrams, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge