Ysenda Mastone Graham: Author

Ysenda is a mother of three boys and lives in London.  After reading English at Girton College, Cambridge, she began her career at Harpers & Queen before becoming a features writer and radio critic for the Sunday Telegraph and a columnist for the Sunday Express.  She was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Biography Award with The Real Mrs Miniver. 

Favourite books: Her favourite writers are Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh and
PG Wodehouse and Ysenda enjoys the work of Selina Hastings, AN Wilson, Anthony Lane and Martin Amis.