ABOUT LIZZY
Lizzy Barber studied English at Corpus Christ College, Cambridge University. After 'previous lives' acting and working in film development, she has spent the last ten years as Head of Brand and Marketing for The Hush Collection, a boutique group of restaurants founded by her brother, Jamie.
Her debut novel, MY NAME IS ANNA, is the winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, and was published in 2019 in the UK by Penguin Random House, by Mira/Harper Collins in the US and by Albatros in Slovakia.
OUT OF HER DEPTH was published in 2022 by Pan Macmillan in the UK and Harper Collins in the US and was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. TV rights have been optioned by Eleventh Hour Films.
NANNY WANTED was published in 2023 by Pan Macmillan. BE MINE will be published on 22nd May 2025 by Datura Books.
Lizzy lives in London with her husband, George, a food writer and strategy consultant, and their son, Marlowe.