Experts List

Mental Health

Siobhan Curham

Siobhan Curham suffered from antenatal depression but she didn’t know it at the time and thought she was going mad. Determined that other mothers wouldn’t have to go through what she went through, she decided to write this book.

Emily Halban

Emily Halban was born in Geneva in 1983 and spent her childhood there before moving to England to study at Oxford University. She graduated in 2004 and moved to London where she now lives. Emily developed anorexia at the age of 16.

Oliver James

Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1987, has worked as a writer, journalist and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture, the bestselling They F*** You Up and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. He is a trustee of two children's charities: the National Family and Parenting Institute and Homestart.

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Stephanie Merritt

Stephanie Merritt was born in 1974. She graduated in English from Queens' College Cambridge in 1996. She has worked as a critic and feature writer for various publications including the Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Arena, TLS, Zembla and Die Welt, and since 1998 has been Deputy Literary Editor and a staff writer at the Observer. She is the author of two novels, Gaveston (Faber) which won a Betty Trask Award in 2002, and Real (Faber, 2005), for which she is currently writing a screenplay. She has appeared regularly as a critic and panellist on Radio 4 and BBC7 and appeared as interviewer and author at various literary festivals, as well as the National Theatre and the ENO. She is currently at work on a third novel.

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