Hello. I'm a British journalist and author, and the photo on this page is a bit misleading because I spend most of my time writing at my kitchen table in south-east London, making a cup of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through a sentence (this happens a lot). I'm a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and Country Life, and a regular contributor to a variety of other national and international publications.
I've written six novels - The Plus One, What Happens Now?, The Wish List, Did You Miss Me?, Looking Out for Love and The Right Place - and one memoir, The Year of The Dog, which is mostly about my terrier, Dennis. You can see him here, sniffing my hand for a biscuit.
Sometimes, if I'm not drinking lukewarm tea in my leggings at home, I appear on radio and television talking about important topics such as the Royal family and how to correctly eat a pear (with your fingers, having cut it into quarters first. I didn't make this rule up, I'm merely passing it on).
