Sam Baker
Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines, including Red, New Woman, Chat, and Take a Break.
After successfully re-launching the seminal teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, Sam spent five years as editor of Company, then left to write her first novel Fashion Victim. She returned to magazines as editor of Cosmopolitan in the UK and is now editor-in-chief of Red.
Sam is a regular broadcaster on young women's issues as well as writing for numerous national newspapers. She is also the author of two previous novels, Fashion Victim and This Year's Model. Sam lives between Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her partner, the award-winning novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
Photograph © Sarah Dunn
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To My Best Friends
Sam Baker
Nicci Morrison was always the first of her friends to do everything! But she wasn't meant to be the first to die. But when she does, little does she know the impact her decisions in life would have on her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2011
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The Stepmothers' Support Group
Sam Baker
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker has first-hand experience of the very tricky businessof stepmother-hood. Now in her 40s, she became a stepmother, ‘the most loathed of fairy-tale baddies’, at just 26. In this feisty female-support...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2009
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Fashion Victim
Sam Baker
New York, London and Milan are the backdrops for this fast paced slickly written high heeled murder mystery. Journalist Annie Anderson's undercover investigations into the darker side of the fashion industry take a shocking and personal turn when someone she...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 03/05/2006
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