Lorraine Candy
Lorraine Candy was until recently the the Luxury Content Director for The Sunday Times and Editor in Chief of Style magazine. Previously, she was Editor in Chief of ELLE magazine for 12 years. During her career as a journalist and editor, she has worked as Editor in Chief at Cosmopolitan and Features Director of The Times newspaper.
She wrote a playful weekly parenting column for The Daily Mail’s Femail for six years called “I don’t know how I do It” and has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Mail, The Radio Times, Good Housekeeping and The Sunday Times, as well as regularly interviewing celebrities for covers for the award-winning ELLE magazine.
She regularly writes on her adventures in fitness, being a mum of four, fashion, and feminism. She has a large social media following: Twitter 105k, Instagram 25k, Facebook 10k and regularly gives talks on a variety of subjects of interest to women. She has presented at the Mumsnet Conference and hosted many ELLE events interviewing women live on stage, including Melinda Gates.
Lorraine appears regularly on TV and radio including Newsnight, the BBC’s Nine O’Clock news, This Morning and Anne Robinson’s Secret Britain as well as Radio Four’s Today programme and Woman’s Hour. She co-hosts the podcast Postcards from Midlife, which she devised, writes and presents with Trish Halpin.
She is on the media advisory board of the children's charity Theirworld and also on the membership council of the Tate art galleries.
1001 THINGS ONLY MOTHERS OF TEENAGE GIRLS KNOW: THE MANUAL was published in June 2021 by Fourth Estate. It is part guide, part memoir and part love-letter to Lorraine’s two teenage daughters, and a candid, helpful and hilarious guide to the many unexpected challenges of mothering teenage girls. It was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller for several weeks.
Her memoir WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME was published by Fourth Estate in May 2023, and was released in paperback in February 2024.