I am a parenting author and highly experienced UK national newspaper journalist - twice nominated for the Feature Writer of the Year Award (popular) - who writes broadly across the national press.
I am also the author of 13 books, including nine on parenting with publishers including DK, LittleBrown and Macmillan.
These include 'What's My Teenager Thinking?' ws published in May 2020 and 'What's My Child Thinking? , published in 2019, which is now in more than 30 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Greek and German, Danish and Swedish
My other books include 'The Friendship Maze: How to help your child navigate their way to positive, happier friendships,' 'Girls, Uninterrupted: How to Build Stronger Girls in a Challenging World' and 'Taming the Tiger Parent- How to put your child's wellbeing first in a competitive world.'
All of these have been serialised in national newspapers including The Times Weekend Section, The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday, among others.
My features also regularly appear in publications which have included The Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Express, The Sunday Mirror, Grazia, The New Statesman You Magazine, Prospect, Marie Claire, Bella, The Sunday Express, The Sunday People, Now, Woman, Woman's Own as well a range of international publications, including the New York Post and Sydney Morning Herald.
I was nominated for National Newspaper Feature Writer of the Year (Popular) by The Society of Editors in 2017 and have been nominated again this year (2020)
As the Mirror's former consumer correspondent, I have also specialised in consumer journalism was named Consumer Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club.
As a health writer, I have been nominated for the Best National Newspaper Health Feature from the Guild of Health Writers.
As an investigative journalist, I was nominated for the UK Press Gazette Scoop of the Year.
I am also a regular on TV and radio. I have appeared on This Morning, NBC's Today Programme, the BBC News, Radio Four's You and Yours, Woman's Hour and Loose Ends, among many others.
