Polly Samson

Polly Samson was born in London in 1962 and spent most of her childhood in Cornwall and Devon. She worked as a journalist and has written song lyrics. At the age of twenty-four, she became an executive at the publishing house Jonathan Cape. Her articles have been published in outlets such as the Observer, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Telegraph, and she had a regular column in the Sunday Times for several years. She published a series of her short stories in the Observer and the Sunday Express, which were read on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. An anthology of these stories has been published under the title "Lying in Bed" and received critical acclaim. Polly Samson lives in Sussex with her husband and their three sons.