Angela Lambert

Angela Lambert was born in 1940 and educated at a boarding-school in Sussex and at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read PPE. She then worked for a cabinet minister before becoming a journalist in 1969. After this she was a television reporter with ITN and Thames Television for, seventeen years until she joined the newly launched Independent in 1988. She also wrote interviews for the Daily Mail. Angela Lambert had three grown-up children and five grandchildren, and lived with her partner Tony Price in London and France until her death in 2007. Kiss and Kin was her fifth novel.