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Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967) is an English novelist and journalist.
Waugh grew up from the age of four at Combe Florey House, in Somerset, of which she has written: "It's an impressive-looking place: big and quite grand and pleasingly symmetrical, set at the top of a long, winding drive, with an Elizabethan gatehouse at the bottom and a small lake with a private island halfway up... With forbidden attics and vast cellars chock-a-block with hidden treasures, there was never any need for a nursery... My memories are of a house, underheated (to put it mildly), but always full of noisy cousins and glamorous, clever people, eating well and talking quickly."Daisy Waugh, "Waugh home up for sale", The Sunday Times, 13 April 2008.
On television, she has presented Channel 4's Travelog show and was a contributor to the BBC Radio Four programme Afternoon Shift. Daisy Waugh at fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2010
A Small Town in Africa (1994), a book about Waugh's experiences while living for six months at Isiolo in the Eastern Province of Kenya, was well received.Tom Parkinson, Matt Phillips, Will Gourlay, Kenya (2006), p. 15 online, retrieved 26 May 2010. Daisy Waugh at thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2010. In 1995, she spent three months travelling in the United States with Samantha Weinberg.Daisy Waugh, "She's a Green Party pin-up – nothing less" in The Sunday Times, 28 March 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
In 2005, the Literary Review described Waugh's novel Bed of Roses as " Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr Chips".
From about 2005 to 2007, Waugh lived in the country and wrote an anonymous column for The Sunday Times called "Country/City Mole in Home". This phase came to an end when she gave up the rural idyll and returned to London to write The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife (2008).Daisy Waugh, No blood, just icing sugar in their veins in The Sunday Times, 28 October 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
Waugh has published several novels, as well as works of non-fiction, and has written for British national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and The Sunday Times. Writers (W) at standpointmag.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2010. .
Family
Waugh married Peter de Sales la Terrière in 1995. Peter de Sales la Terrière at geneall.net, retrieved 25 May 2010. Their first child, a daughter, was born on 22 September 1997, a son three years later, and a second daughter in 2006.Daisy Waugh, "Fleeced by the au pair", The Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2005, online at telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2010. She lives in London with her husband and children. Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008, p. 1094.
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Categories: 1967 Births, Living People, British Restaurant Critics, English Columnists, English Satirists, 20th-century English Novelists, 21st-century English Novelists, Daisy, People Educated At Taunton School, People From Taunton Deane, The Sunday Times People, The Times People, Writers From Somerset
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