ABOUT FREYA

Freya Sampson is the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Chance Library, The Lost Ticket/The Girl on the 88 Bus and Nosy Neighbors.

She studied history at Cambridge University and worked in television as an executive producer, making documentaries about everything from the British royal family to neighbours from hell.

She lives in London with her husband, children and cats. The Busybody Book Club is her fourth novel.

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First pass pages for THE BUSYBODY BOOK CLUB are here! This is the last chance I get to read the manuscript and check for any errors that might have slipped through the net: missing commas, errant words and accidental typos. And although both me and a

Might have “patron saint of city dwellers who form unexpected, solid-as-steel friendships” as my new email signature! Massive thanks to @npr for including Nosy Neighbors in your 2024 “Books We Love” list, alongside some of my

When it’s freezing and you want to work in bed, but the cat has other ideas…

I received two brilliant pieces of book post today. PONY CONFIDENTIAL by Christina Lynch and I DID SOMETHING BAD by Pyae Moe Thet War have both been released recently, and are both funny, smart and utterly original. Swipe to see why I loved them so m

✨New book incoming!!✨ My next novel, THE BUSYBODY BOOK CLUB, will be coming out in May 2025, and I’m so happy to share the US cover with you all. Isn’t she cute?! My hugest thanks to @lilaselle for once again making me squeal with happine

Question: What do The Murder at the Vicarage, The Duke and I and Where the Crawdads Sing all have in common??

Answer: They’re all featured in the plot of my newest book, the details of which I’m going to be revealing tomorrow in my newsl

Family inter-railing badge unlocked! 🚂
3 weeks, 3 countries, 2700km, 23 trains, 2 massive arguments and approximately 1000 card games later, we’re finally back home with a mountain of laundry and lots of amazing memories. Switzerland gave us

🇮🇹 I realise the only photos I have of myself on this trip are eating huge bowls of food with a massive grin on my face, but that’s pretty much how I’ve spent the past 2 and a half weeks, and I’m OK with that!

Italy has been amaz

🇫🇷 Our European inter rail adventure has taken us on to the South of France, where we’ve spent a gorgeous (and very hot) week exploring Provence. Avignon and Arles gave us awesome Roman ruins, river swimming and rosé, and the Côt