


She founded a women's magazine, Women's Review, before becoming a freelance journalist. She went on to teach literature in Los Angeles and London.

She then studied English literature at Oxford University and then an MPhil at Sheffield University in 1986. She was educated at The Alice Ottley School in Worcester. She grew up in Worcestershire, together with her two sisters and her brother. Nicola 'Nicci' Gerrard was born on 10 June 1958. The couple have two daughters, Hadley and Molly, and Gerrard has two children from her first marriage, Edgar and Anna.īiography Nicci Gerrard Both have studied English literature at Oxford University. Since 1999 they have lived in Suffolk in East Anglia, England. Nicci Gerrard and Sean French were married in 1990. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard (born 10 June 1958) and Sean French (born ), who write psychological thrillers together. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts.

Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. A day to snatch a child from the streets.
