Elizabeth Noble

Elizabeth Noble writes relationship-centered fiction with an attentive eye for families and long friendships. The Family Holiday gathers the Chamberlain family for an eightieth birthday after bereavement and distance have pulled its members apart. The Friendship Test follows four women whose college bond is tested by the complications of later life; Penguin notes that the novel was previously published as The Tenko Club. Across both books, Noble shifts among several characters rather than treating family or friendship as a simple backdrop. Penguin publishes her work in the United Kingdom, where The Reading Group became a number-one Sunday Times bestseller. Noble lives in Surrey and has two grown daughters.