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In 1995 Nicci and Sean began work on their first joint novel and adopted the pseudonym of Nicci French.

Their daughters, Hadley and Molly, were born in 19.īy the mid-nineties Sean had had two novels published, The Imaginary Monkey and The Dreamer of Dreams, as well as numerous non-fiction books, including biographies of Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. Sean and Nicci were married in Hackney in October 1990. During that time he also worked at the Sunday Times as deputy literary editor and television critic, and was the film critic for Marie Claire and deputy editor of New Society. In 1981 he won Vogue magazine's Writing Talent Contest, and from 1981 to 1986 he was their theatre critic. He too studied English Literature at Oxford University at the same time as Nicci, also graduating with a first class degree, but their paths didn't cross until 1990. Sean French was born in May 1959 in Bristol, to a British father and Swedish mother.

It was while she was at the New Statesman that she met Sean French.

In 1989 she became acting literary editor at the New Statesman, before moving to the Observer, where she was deputy literary editor for five years, and then a feature writer and executive editor. In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down. In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield. Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. Note: ( Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.)