She began her career at the Guardian with Public Lives, a weekly column on the Women’s Page created especially for her, in which she explored the interplay between the public and private faces of prominent women. She then moved to become the chief profile writer on the Guardian’s award-winning Weekend magazine writing profiles of leading international figures from all areas of the public world. These included Senator Hillary Clinton; renowned architect Daniel Libeskind; celebrity figures such as Jack Nicholson, Kate Winslet, Martin Sheen; artists Paula Rego and David Hockney. And of course Gordon Brown whom she shadowed for three months in the summer of 2004 to write the first major ‘personal’ interview with the then Chancellor.

She is married with two daughters, and lives in London and Berlin.