Author Daisy Buchanan on sobriety, seaside and absorbing books

Daisy moved to Margate seven years ago to concentrate on her creative life

Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. Her books include the novels Insatiable (longlisted for the CWIP prize), Careering (as heard on BBC Sounds) and Limelight, and the non-fiction titles How to Be a Grown Up and The Sisterhood. She hosts the chart-topping podcast You’re Booked, where she interviews legendary writers from all over the world about how their reading habits shape their work. Her newest novel Pity Party is out now and it is so funny, relatable and human. You should all get a copy now.

Daisy’s fiction course Write Like A Reader is open and booking for the last time in 2024. She sums it up thus: “Being a reader has taught me everything I know about writing. More importantly, I write because I read. I’m a reader first… When I write badly, it’s usually because I’m trying to perform the role of ‘author’. When I write well, it’s because I’m writing as generously and respectfully as I can, to address the reader whose needs I understand the best.”

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