Eve Makis

Eve Makis was born in Nottingham to Greek Cypriot parents, who emigrated to England in the 1960s. After graduating from Leicester University she studied journalism and moved to London to work as a reporter for Middlesex County Press. In 1994 she left London for Cyprus, where she worked as a writer, radio presenter and as a freelance reporter for the London Evening Standard. She returned to England with her Cypriot husband in 2001. They now live in Nottingham with their daughter. She is the author of Eat, Drink and Be Married, which was voted the Young Booksellers International Book of the Year, and The Mother-in-Law.