Hester Grant studied modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where she was
awarded the JL Field Exhibition and the Keith Feiling History Prize. She
subsequently trained and practised as a barrister.
Hester gave up her career at the Bar to bring up her three children, and to
pursue her great loves of writing and 18th-century
British history. Her first book, The Good Sharps, is published by Chatto & Windus .
Agent: Patrick Walsh
