In London, love is dead. Tinder killed it and Hinge is dancing on its grave.
EVENING STANDARD
Category: Bad Romance
To publish unpublishable books, look to your readers
An author always writes the book she wants to read. So my short story collection, Bad Romance, was intended for women like me. Now, every time I get a letter from a beautiful creature who loved it, I keep her words with me. Because I know I’ll need them to sustain me the next time [...]
What Would Bridget Do?
When I was young, I thought Bridget Jones was a joke. Ha, ha, I thought, what a load of bollocks, as she chain-smoked her way into Colin Firth’s boxers. But ever since I turned 30, to my horror I realise it is all true – with added déjà vu - because it is all happening, [...]
BETTER TO START YOUR OWN MODERN FAMILY THAN WAIT FOR ‘THE ONE’
When I was a girl, my mother stuffed my head full of fairy-tales and the most fantastic of them all sounded quite banal at the time. It was about how families are made. One day (she was quite adamant) I would meet a man and love him so fiercely I’d want to make a tiny [...]
