Daisy Goodwin was born in 1962 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Columbia University. She is a television producer whose work includes Bookworm, The Nation’s Favourite Poems and Homefront and is currently head of features at Talkback Productions. She has written articles for the Guardian, Evening Standard, Poetry Review, Elle and Cosmopolitan.

‘From the opening sentence of “Silver River”, it is clear that Daisy Goodwin can catch a reader by the throat…an intriguing memoir.’ TLS‘Goodwin, who threads her family saga with her own experience of near suicidal depression and her need to make sense of her mother’s decision to abandon her as a child, is a disarmingly skilful storyteller…A beautifully realised book, suspended delicately and precisely between memoir and magical realism.’ Sunday Times‘“Silver River” runs bright and clear, a quick and vital current of self-awareness by a natural storyteller who uses literary styles and devices with a deft hand. From the first terror of being dangled over a cliff by her father, greatly amusing her mother, to her depression and sense of abandonment after the birth of her daughter, Goodwin artfully integrates the disparate sections of her life, emerging whole and healed.’ The Times

Daisy Goodwin was born in 1962 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Columbia University. She is a television producer whose work includes Bookworm, The Nation’s Favourite Poems and Homefront and is currently head of features at Talkback Productions. She has written articles for the Guardian, Evening Standard, Poetry Review, Elle and Cosmopolitan.

‘From the opening sentence of “Silver River”, it is clear that Daisy Goodwin can catch a reader by the throat…an intriguing memoir.’ TLS‘Goodwin, who threads her family saga with her own experience of near suicidal depression and her need to make sense of her mother’s decision to abandon her as a child, is a disarmingly skilful storyteller…A beautifully realised book, suspended delicately and precisely between memoir and magical realism.’ Sunday Times‘“Silver River” runs bright and clear, a quick and vital current of self-awareness by a natural storyteller who uses literary styles and devices with a deft hand. From the first terror of being dangled over a cliff by her father, greatly amusing her mother, to her depression and sense of abandonment after the birth of her daughter, Goodwin artfully integrates the disparate sections of her life, emerging whole and healed.’ The Times