“Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best. Narcissistic monsters and suffocating families are quite the specialty of hers, but Wife is just unbearably brilliant”
— Nigella Lawson
“This is a love story,” Zoe tells the reader, and it is, profoundly so, in the end. But I'll remember it more as a thriller . . . God, you want Zoe to get away. Does she? Better read the book”
— The Sunday Times
“The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest, family dramas a writer of literary fiction can . . . This is late Shakespeare meets Modern Family and it’s irresistible”
— The SUNDAY TIMES
“Mendelson’s novels inhabit similar territory to those of Maggie O’Farrell, with the same capacity for extreme noticing, the same profound emotional intelligence”
— The OBSERVER
WRITING ABOUT WRITING
Charlotte has written introductions to novels by Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Renault, Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and published essays about Iris Murdoch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Hazzard and Sarah Waters, among others. A selection of these is below:
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Rereading: The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
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Loving Highsmith
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My hero: Iris Murdoch by Charlotte Mendelson
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On Sarah Waters
RECENT JOURNALISM
Charlotte has been a columnist for The New Yorker, The Financial Times Weekend and The Observer. You can find links to her columns below, as well as to a selection of other articles and personal essays in The Guardian, The Times, BBC Radio 4 and elsewhere:
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Diagnosis: a bad case of thrips
These tiny black dots with asymmetrical mouth-parts are not just microscopic nightmares, but the sap-sucking bane of houseplant.
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Country chronicles: a gardening holiday
Far from the madding crowd in Totleigh Barton.
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Haven’t got a garden? There’s still plenty of room to grow
Much can be grown inside even a small kitchen, if one has a window and no common sense at all
OTHER WRITING
Media APPEARANCES
Charlotte is available for media appearances, podcast interviews and events; please contact her using the button below.
Teaching
& Private Mentoring
Charlotte is uniquely in demand for her one-to-one help for authors at every stage of writing a novel.
