Imogen Howson

As a child, Imogen Howson loved reading so much that she not only read in bed, at the table and in the bath, but in the shower and—not so successfully—on her bicycle.

She enjoyed books in a slightly unorthodox way, too: many of her childhood books have ragged edges where she tore paper from the margins in order to eat it.

Imogen lives with her partner, one fussy cat, and two tiny dogs, in Cambridgeshire in England, where she works as a freelance copy editor, bakes, runs, drinks coffee, and sustains an amateur but enthusiastic interest in all things make-up and skincare.

She no longer eats paper.