Penny Freedman

Penny Freedman grew up in Surrey. She studied Classics at Oxford and later did postgraduate work in Linguistics, writing a PhD thesis on Shakespeare’s pronouns. She has taught Latin, Greek, English, Drama and Linguistics in schools, colleges and universities in London, Kent and Warwickshire. Along the way, she has also been a mother, theatre reviewer, Samaritan, and amateur actor and director. She is a gluttonous reader, a passionate theatre-goer, a human rights activist and committed feminist. Her detective heroine, Gina Gray, is the woman Penny might have been, if she had been braver and less polite. She lives in Stratford-upon-Avon.