Lucy Mangan

Lucy Mangan is a journalist - now the Guardian's television critic - and author. Her first book, Hopscotch & Handbags: the Truth About Being a Girl, came out in 2007, her latest in 2018 (Bookworm: a Memoir of Childhood Reading) and due in Ocotber 2021 is her debut novel whose title is currently being argued over. In between she has acquired a husband, a child, a house and two cats - not quite in that order - and a severe sleep deficit. But that's mainly because she won't stop reading til one o'clock in the morning now that her mother can't tell her off.