Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home educated on a council estate in Woverhampton. She published her first novel at 16 and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has won Columnist of the Year seven times and has also been named Interviewer and Critic of the Year. Her million-selling groundbreaking feminist memoir How to be a Woman was voted one of the Sunday Times ‘Most Important Books of the Twenty-First Century’. Caitlin's other books have also been bestsellers and How to Build a Girl was made into a film with Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. Her Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, co-written with her sister Caroline Moran, won a Rose d’Or for Best Sitcom. Her Who’s Who entry lists her interests as 'cava, eyeliner, hair embiggening, and The Struggle'.She lives in North London with her husband and two children, and, after following all her own advice, she really is hopeful now.

"Hilarious [and] sharply intelligent ... she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today ... guaranteed to brighten up anyone's life" Independent "As insightful and every bit as funny as her last book, but with broader range" Elle "She is a brilliant, brilliant writer" Glamour "Properly funny, naughty and admirably no-nonsense, it's every bit as brilliant as you'd expect" Closer "I adore, admire and am addicted to Caitlin Moran's writing" -- Nigella Lawson