Isla Dewar worked as a magazine journalist (it was all rock’n’roll and other delicious agonies) before writing her first novel, Keeping Up With Magda. Her books have been listed for various awards and translated into seventeen languages. One, Women Talking Dirty, was filmed; Isla wrote the script. She has had children so knows a little about life. She lives with her husband of many years in Fife. And still she writes.