Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She is a writer and columnist at The Observer, and the television critic of The New Statesman. Her essays have been broadcast on Radio 3, most recently the five-part series The Odd Woman.
Her book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties, is published by Virago. She is currently working on a new book, The Reckoning, which explores ideas around bad behaviour and good art.