Rachel Cooke

Journalist and Writer

Rachel Cooke is an award winning journalist. She writes for The Observer, and is the television critic of the New Statesman. Her first book, HER BRILLIANT CAREER: TEN EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN OF THE FIFTIES (Virago/ Harper US) was published in 2013. She is now beginning work on her second, a short history of the spinster which she hopes to call THE ODD WOMAN. Rachel is also busy writing an essay for Radio 3 about her love for Francoise Sagan’s novel BONJOUR TRISTESSE.