I'm a freelance journalist and writer specialising in funny first-person pieces and reporting on the latest social trends. 

I cover anything new and exciting, writing thought-provoking features which cut to the heart of any subject.

Other editorial services I undertake include writing books, editing, proofreading and editorial/PR consultancy. I always meet deadlines, and make sure my writing is sharp, accurate and original. I also happen to be a Lynne Trussite grammar fanatic, and quite frankly, there is little I wouldn't do to rid this world of apostrophes in the wrong places.

My writing career kicked off as soon as I could hold pen to paper. Anyone who knows academic North Oxford, with its tricyle-riding intellectual mothers and drunkards whose very laughter is educated, will understand the ivory-towered community in which I was raised as the 1978-born daughter of two Oxford dons. Education was everything. The reference points of this literary world were T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare and Chaucer - usually discussed by grownups on golden afternoons on a punt while we children showed our bottoms to the river.

After graduating with a degree in English Literature from Cambridge in 2000, I wanted to make a career as a writer somehow. In 2002, I was commissioned to write The Agony of Ecstasy , which came out in spring 2004.

A year later, armed with my trusty PGDip in magazine journalism, I landed a feature writing job at women's mag REAL. It was a fantastic job - finally I was being paid regularly to do what I love - seek out and talk with interesting people, and write about all kinds of fascinating, new and secret things.

After some time, I realised I could do even better freelancing, so I took the plunge and started writing for a host of papers and magazines, including the Observer/Guardian, Telegraph, Times,  Red, SHE, NW, Cosmo Bride, First, Essentials, Psychologies,  Tatler, Woman's Own and many more.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to know more. I am friendly and responsive and always keen to hear ideas.