I started off my career as a journalist – after a book of mine, Chelsea Bird, was published when I was twenty. In the ’sixties I wrote a rock column for the Daily Mail. But after suffering long bouts of depression, I decided to apply for the job of agony aunt at Woman magazine. Anna Raeburn had just left – and I got the job. I stayed there for ten years and since then worked as problem page editor for the Sunday Mirror and Today – and at the moment I write the Dilemmas column for the Independent every Monday, and a monthly column for the Oldie.
I’m also starting a new career as a performer, with the Virginia Monologues.