Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines, including Red, New Woman, Chat, and Take a Break.

After successfully re-launching the seminal teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, Sam spent five years as editor of Company, then left to write Fashion Victim. She returned to magazines as editor of Cosmopolitan in the UK.

Now editor in chief of Red, Sam is a regular broadcaster on young women's issues. (As well as writing for numerous national newspapers.) After spending the past five years on the biannual merry-go-round that is the seasonal ready-to-wear shows, she confesses she still hasn't learned how to kick that "fashion feeling."

Sam lives between Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her partner, the award-winning novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood...

She has just started her third novel.