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Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967) is an English novelist and journalist.

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Early life

A member of a literary dynasty, Waugh is the second daughter of the writer and journalist Auberon Waugh, by his marriage in 1961 to the novelist and translator Lady Teresa Waugh, daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow. [1] Her brother, Alexander Waugh, is a writer. They are grandchildren of the author Evelyn Waugh and great-grandchildren of the publisher and literary critic Arthur Waugh. [2]

Waugh grew up from the age of four at Combe Florey House, in Somerset, of which she has written: "It's an impressive-looking place: big and quite grand and pleasingly symmetrical, set at the top of a long, winding drive, with an Elizabethan gatehouse at the bottom and a small lake with a private island halfway up... With forbidden attics and vast cellars chock-a-block with hidden treasures, there was never any need for a nursery... My memories are of a house, underheated (to put it mildly), but always full of noisy cousins and glamorous, clever people, eating well and talking quickly." [3]

Career

At the age of twenty-one she published her first book, What Is the Matter with Mary Jane? (1988). She pursued an ambition to become a Hollywood screenwriter, which turned into a weekly newspaper column from Los Angeles. Other journalism includes working as a restaurant critic and as an agony aunt for The Independent , and travel writing.[ citation needed ]

On television, she has presented Channel 4's Travelog show and was a contributor to the BBC Radio Four programme Afternoon Shift. [4]

A Small Town in Africa (1994), a book about Waugh's experiences while living for six months at Isiolo in the Eastern Province of Kenya, was well received. [5] [6] In 1995, she spent three months travelling in the United States with Samantha Weinberg. [7]

In 2005, the Literary Review described Waugh's novel Bed of Roses as " Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr Chips ."

From about 2005 to 2007, Waugh lived in the country and wrote an anonymous column for The Sunday Times called Country/City Mole in Home. This phase came to an end when she gave up the rural idyll and returned to London to write The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife (2008). [8]

Waugh has published several novels, as well as works of non-fiction, and has written for British national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph , The Times , and The Sunday Times . [4] [9]

Family

Waugh married Peter de Sales la Terrière in 1995. [10] Their first child, a daughter, was born on 22 September 1997, a son three years later, and a second daughter in 2006. [11] She lives in London with her husband and children. [4] [12]

Books

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References

  1. ↑ Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh at geneall.net, retrieved 27 May 2010
  2. ↑ Sophie Black, 'A Family Affair: We see the outside world as the enemy' in The Independent dated 25 March 2002
  3. ↑ Daisy Waugh, Waugh home up for sale in The Sunday Times dated 13 April 2008, online
  4. 1 2 3 Daisy Waugh at fantasticfiction.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2010
  5. ↑ Tom Parkinson, Matt Phillips, Will Gourlay, Kenya (2006), p. 15 online, retrieved 26 May 2010
  6. ↑ Daisy Waugh at thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2010
  7. ↑ Daisy Waugh, She's a Green Party pin-up – nothing less in The Sunday Times dated 28 March 2010, online at times.cluster.newsint.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2010
  8. ↑ Daisy Waugh, No blood, just icing sugar in their veins in The Sunday Times dated 28 October 2007, at property.timesonline.co.uk, retrieved 26 May 2010
  9. ↑ Writers (W) at standpointmag.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2010
  10. ↑ Peter de Sales la Terrière at geneall.net, retrieved 25 May 2010
  11. ↑ Daisy Waugh, Fleeced by the au pair in The Daily Telegraph dated 4 Apr 2005, online at telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 26 May 2010
  12. ↑ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008, p. 1094
  13. ↑ Last Dance with Valentino at books.google.co.uk, retrieved 26 May 2010
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