Sophie Elmhirst

Sophie Elmhirst is a prizewinning writer for the Guardian Long Read and The Economist 's 1843 magazine, and a contributing editor at the Gentlewoman and Harper's Bazaar . In 2020 she won the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year; she has also won a Foreign Press Award and been longlisted for the Orwell Prize. She first came across the story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey researching a piece on our desire to escape. This is her first book. She lives in London.

Sophie Elmhirst is a prizewinning writer for the Guardian Long Read and The Economist 's 1843 magazine, and a contributing editor at the Gentlewoman and Harper's Bazaar . In 2020 she won the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year; she has also won a Foreign Press Award and been longlisted for the Orwell Prize. She first came across the story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey researching a piece on our desire to escape. This is her first book. She lives in London. See less