Elizabeth Buchan is a novelist whose books include the award-winning Consider the Lily and the international bestsellers Revenge of the Middle-Aged Women and Bonjour, Sophie. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in many magazines. She began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books and moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full-time. Elizabeth has been a judge for the Whitbread First Novel Award and for the Costa Novel Award, is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and a co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival. The paperback of Bonjour, Sophie will be published on 3 April 2025.