Hester Grant

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