My 9-year-old daughter devoured it in two nights, and all I could hear from her was giggling and the occasional "Mum! Listen to this! This is SO me!". Katie Kirby is a writer and illustrator who lives by the sea in Hove with her husband, two sons and dog Sasha.

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She has a degree in Advertising and Marketing and after spending several years working in London media agencies, which basically involved hanging out in fancy restaurants and pretending to know what she was talking about, she had some children and decided to start a blog called 'Hurrah for Gin' about the gross injustice of it all.Katie has managed to capture the essence of what this group think and feel in a positive, life-affirming fashion. Read more Details Then Lottie meets new CRUSH Antoine. The language is a tiny bit of a barrier but does it matter when he's THAT good looking? My daughter couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days. Read at breakfast, walking downstairs, tea time, in the bath. Many people said her sense of humour was silly and immature so she is now having a bash at writing children's fiction. The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks is her first novel.