DAISY WAUGH was a newspaper journalist for about 30 years. Today she teaches yoga and reads the tarot. She has written 14 novels and two nonfiction books which, between them, have been translated into many languages.

She published her first novel, What Is the Matter with Mary Jane?, at the age of 21 and has been writing ever since. She has also been a restaurant critic, an agony aunt, a travel writer, and a celebrity interviewer. (In the late 1980s, she interviewed Donald Trump for the Daily Mail. They got on famously... so she claims.)

She has written regular columns for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, the Times, the i, Standpoint and the Independent. She wrote a non-fiction book about the madness of modern motherhood and another about teaching at a girls' school in Eastern Kenya, since closed due to bandits. She wrote a column from Los Angeles about trying to break into the film industry, and another from Somerset, about trying to adapt to country life. Under the pen name EV Harte she wrote a couple of novels about a tarot reading detective named Dolly Greene. The books are currently being developed for adaptation into a TV drama series.

Here's a taster of some of the nice stuff people have said:

Daisy Waugh’s featherlight satires are as refreshing and uplifting as a glass of chilled vintage champagne, THE TIMES; Witty, well written and determinedly entertaining. This book made me laugh out loud, DAISY GOODWIN, CATHOLIC HERALD; Daisy Waugh's writing is loaded with wit and satire and readers will find themselves laughing out loud, FLORIDA TIMES UNION; What a triumph!, ANTONIA FRASER; Full of laugh out loud funny bits, NEW WOMAN; Plenty of satire, several good laughs and many dark chuckles, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; Daisy Waugh’s brilliant book is an utterly compulsive read, REVEAL; Hilarious and timely, SUNDAY TIMES; Sharp and funny, TATLER; Wicked modern satire, DAILY EXPRESS; Beguiling and very funny – a real joy to read, PUBLISHING NEWS; Intelligent, inventive and deliciously entertaining, SAGA; Refreshingly black comic streak, LITERARY REVIEW; Funny, cynical… astute and genuinely knowing, EVENING STANDARD; Refreshingly sharp and witty social satire, DAILY MAIL; That’s probably enuff, ED