Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.
Kent is an extremely fine writer and makes terrific use in particular of the Fens' waterlogged, empty landscape in which secrets can be easily buried if never quite forgotten ... Terrifyingly good. Metro Shocking in the extreme. The Loving Husband is a twisted psychological thriller Sun Atmospheric and psychologically acute throughout Sunday Times Christobel Kent is one of our most assured thriller writers. The Loving Husband is a perfectly paced and plotted novel Good Housekeeping Firmly in the currently fashionable domestic noir genre, but this is no catchpenny trend-chasing; Kent effortlessly rises above other entries in the field ... the familiar is confronted and inverted and Kent's ace in the hole is her keen penetration of the characters' psychology, particularly that of beleaguered heroine Fran -- Barry Forshaw Financial Times Unsettling domestic thriller ... Spooky and skilfully written, this is one to race through Sunday Mirror Fans of a good old-fashioned page-turner will love this Closer A tautly plotted trail of red herrings, scares and eventual revelations that keep the Gone Girl fever-type buzz alive -- Jon Wise Weekend Sport A clever and claustrophobic tale Literary Review The critically-acclaimed author of The Crooked House, brings us this compulsive psychological thriller about family, secrets and the lies we tell ourselves ... With a distinctive style and menacing plot, Kent delivers a mesmerising read Peterborough Telegraph An utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it. S. J. Watson on The Crooked House Echoes of Christie and du Maurier in this fine thriller. Sunday Times on The Crooked House Beware sleep deprivation. Christobel Kent is one mesmerising writer. A brilliant thriller. Alex Marwood on The Crooked House Oh my goodness - what a book! So beautifully tense ... just glorious. Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go, on The Crooked House Brilliant. A spooky, gripping and affecting story. Louise Doughty on The Crooked House A gripping thriller, beautifully unfolded, with gorgeous, evocative writing that builds to a shattering climax. Erin Kelly on The Crooked House