Hannah Begbie
Hannah Begbie studied Art History at Cambridge University before working as a talent agent representing award-winning writers and comedians for more than a decade. While developing her debut novel Mother, she won the City University’s Novel Studio Prize for New Writing. Published by HarperCollins in 2018, Mother went on to win the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award for New Writing. It was Book of the Month on Mumsnet and a pick for Fern Britton’s inaugural Book Club for Tesco. Hannah’s second novel Blurred Lines was published in July 2020. It was a Clare Mackintosh Book Club pick and won Woman and Home’s prize for Best Psychological Drama of 2020.
The Last Weekend was published in April 2025 and is Hannah’s first comedy drama. She has written about it for several publications, including Country and Town House and The Sunday Express magazine.
Hannah is currently adapting Mother with Tom Edge and Clerkenwell Films as a television drama for the BBC and developing several comedy dramas with leading TV producers. She writes and podcasts weekly for her Substack newsletter, which can be found here.
Hannah has interviewed several leading authors for live and broadcast events, including David Nicholls, Lucy Foley, Clare Mackintosh and Emma Jane Unsworth.
Photo credit (c): Sophia Spring
