Rebuck's Latvian-born Jewish grandfather, and her own father, were both in the London rag trade.
[2] At the age of four she was sent to the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, London, where she learned to read and write in French before she did in English.
Rebuck was appointed chair and chief executive of Random House UK in 1991.
[12][13] In 2014, it was announced that Rebuck was to become a Labour peer in the House of Lords, following in the footsteps of her late husband.
She was created a life peer on 18 September 2014, taking the title Baroness Rebuck, of Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden.