Sue Limb

Sue Limb (born 1946, Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British writer and broadcaster. She studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at Cambridge and then trained in education. She lives on an organic farm near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.

Her work includes novels – many of them for young adults – and comedies for radio and television, many with a literary or historical setting. One sitcom made the transition from ITV television to BBC Radio 4, Up the Garden Path. For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series (which pay unusual attention to music and sound-effects): The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (a pastiche of the poet William Wordsworth and his circle at Windermere, two series), The Sit Crom (set in the English Civil War), Four Joneses and a Jenkins (a reference to Four Weddings and a Funeral); Alison and Maud; and most recently Gloomsbury, "a rhapsody about bohemians" set in literary Bloomsbury and starring Miriam Margoyles and Alison Steadman.