Daisy Buchanan is an award winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed book How To Be A Grown Up. She's a regular contributor to TV and radio, frequently appearing on Woman's Hour, Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Sky News and the Today programme. Daisy writes for a wide range of publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Sun, Grazia, Marie Claire and The Pool, covering everything from pop culture to mental health with a feminist perspective. She's a TEDx speaker, giving advice on how to get through the trickiest parts of your twenties in her talk How To Survive A Quarter Life Crisis. Daisy has been Grazia's in house agony aunt, writing the popular Dear Daisy column, and she’s currently the title’s Reality TV correspondent, covering Made In Chelsea with her tongue firmly in her cheek.
You Are Here (2024) David Nicholls "You Are Here is a gorgeous, grown-up love story. I fell for Marnie and Michael hard and fast - this book is honest, raw, yet profoundly hopeful. This is the work of a writer at the peak of his enormous powers - it's one of the saddest stories I've ever read, and one of the funniest. A future classic."
This Family (2023) Kate Sawyer "Extraordinary. So elegant, compelling and beautifully written... a vivid and insightful exploration of the complexities of sisterhood, adulthood, desire and grief."
Seven Exes (2023) Lucy Vine "One of the freshest, funniest rom-coms I've ever read . . . with so much heart and depth."
The Happy Couple (2023) Naoise Dolan "I just finished The Happy Couple and I loved it - an extremely funny examination of modern love, with depth, bite and poignancy. It will stay with me for long after I turned the final page."
Between Us (2023) Mhairi McFarlane "So funny and smart. She's brilliant at writing characters you really fancy, and characters you love to hate."
Three Nights in Italy (2023) Olivia Beirne "You can feel the warmth of the sun on every single page . . . brilliantly funny and filled with love."
No Life for a Lady (2023) (Violet Hamilton, book 1) Hannah Dolby "Charming, exhilarating, fabulously funny and so full of heart - Violet is the heroine I've been waiting for."
Mother's Day (2023) Abigail Burdess "Mother's Day is so dark and so shockingly, fabulously funny. I absolutely adored it."
This Could be Everything (2023) Eva Rice "A reason to be cheerful - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming."
Square One (2022) Nell Frizzell "Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant."
The Movement (2022) Ayisha Malik "Funny, exhilarating, wickedly smart. Clever, truly addictive storytelling - I want to push it into everyone's hands immediately."
Meredith, Alone (2022) Claire Alexander "Meredith, Alone is beautiful, moving and unexpectedly timely and this time next summer everyone is going to know Claire Alexander's name. It's such a pleasure to spend time in Meredith's world."
Idol (2022) Louise O'Neill "Electrifying. I devoured IDOL in two greedy gulps - it is so smartly and sharply observed. It's going to stay with me for a long, long time - Louise's writing is so compelling, gripping and addictive."
Here Again Now (2022) Okechukwu Nzelu "A truly stunning love story. Heavy themes captured with grace and lightness. Tender, erotic, a total pleasure to read. Preorder and be smug when it wins all the awards."
The Exhibitionist (2022) Charlotte Mendelson "I don't think I've ever read anything that is simultaneously so elegant and so propulsive - every single sentence Charlotte Mendelson writes is arrestingly powerful. I think this book is beautiful, but it's also funny, furious, sexy, blissfully hot and cold and wild in its rage."
Underbelly (2021) Anna Whitehouse "I don't think I've ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. So sharp, so tender... truly excellent storytelling."
Is This It? (2021) Hannah Tovey "Hannah is a truly gifted comic writer with a great talent for guiding readers through the dark and finding the light. Uncompromising, funny and genuinely moving - it really captures what it's like to be a young woman now, but I'm confident that this is a future classic."
Everyone is Still Alive (2021) Cathy Rentzenbrink "Touching, tender and profound in its warmth and stillness - a novel that explores family, friendship, grief and love in true, tactile detail. Beautiful and very real."
The Push (2021) Ashley Audrain "I was gripped . . . One of 2021's most anticipated books . . . Dazzling and gloriously complete."
True Story (2020) Kate Reed Petty "I loved it. Such a smart, powerful, ambitious book, very high concept and so effectively realised. Definitely one to look out for this summer."
Scenes of a Graphic Nature (2020) Caroline O'Donoghue "Scenes Of A Graphic Nature is a truly extraordinary novel - I inhaled it. It's thrillingly dark, but so moving and human - it's one of the most intelligent, well observed depictions of lust, loss, envy, betrayal, friendship and love that I've ever read. Charlie is so real, courageous, vulnerable, infuriating and adorable. The book itself mirrors Charlie's experience of Ireland - sometimes it's warm and joyous, sometimes it's hostile and terrifying, but even when you know you're in danger, you want to stay for longer and fall even deeper into the pages."
Monogamy (2020) Sue Miller "One of the most emotionally truthful novels I have ever read."
The Confession (2019) Jessie Burton "Her best yet, I’m dazzled by it . . . it’s ambitious and courageous in its scope and I was thrilled and emboldened. The Confession is clever, assured and compelling and I am deeply jealous of every reader who has it all ahead of them."
Inheritance (2019) Jenny Eclair "I truly LOVED this book. Jenny Eclair said one of her favourite sub genres of literature is 'posh people behaving badly' and this absolutely delivers. Smart, heart-breaking, moving and captivating with plenty of deliciously waspish social commentary."
My Lemon Grove Summer (2019) Jo Thomas "I absolutely adored it. Zelda is such a captivating and inspiring heroine, and I love the way that Jo's writing combines such gorgeous escapism with pure emotional honesty."
