Susie Boyt

Susie Boyt (born January 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. She has published seven novels, and a memoir about her obsession with Judy Garland. Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

Life Boyt is the youngest of five daughters of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1992. In 2018, she edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories for Penguin.

Boyt's journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times. She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London.

Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

Novels The Normal Man, 1995 The Characters of Love, 1996 The Last Hope of Girls, 2001 Only Human, 2004 The Small Hours, 2012 Love & Fame, 2017 Loved and Missed, 2021

Non-fiction My Judy Garland Life, 2008

Awards and nominations The Last Hope of Girls was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Only Human was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award My Judy Garland Life was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize