Rachel Neuburger Novelist and Playwright
Rachel is a novelist and playwright currently working on a semi-autobiographical novel titled God Save the Sad Girls. Her novels Drowning Lessons and The Wipeout Affair were published in 2019 as the first two books of the Red Frog Beach Murder Mysteries. Her most recent novel So Pinch Me Quick will be published in late 2026. Her play Nepenthe was produced in 2016 at London’s Women and War Festival. Her play The Silencer was produced in Edinburgh in 2012 followed by a short run in the Festival of the Offensive in 2014.
She was the recipient of an Arts Council England DYCP grant in 2024 for God Save the Sad Girls. As well she was awarded a 2021 Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for further work and research on Nepenthe.
Previous to her writing career Rachel worked as a producer and creative executive on Broadway and off-Broadway. She lives between East London and rural East Sussex with her photographer husband, John, and Comet the Greyhound. On occasion, she does talks about Buddy Holly's fateful 1959 Winter Dance Party Tour and Jack the Ripper.
She is passionately not a fan of writing about herself in the third person but has been told that it’s not an option to do otherwise. Please feel free to contact her, aka me, through the link below.