Katherine Dean lives in Sydney, Australia, and writes funny books about women who’ve just had enough. Up with this nonsense, they will not put. Not for much longer, anyway.

She lives with her family of one husband, three kids and one dog. She is chief feeder and egg-collector for four chickens. She’d quite like some bees as well. Her interests include reading, baking, going to the gym (on account of all the baking), vintage clothes and movies, and obsessive reading.

She doesn’t spend her days dictating to her personal secretary and waiting for her man-servant to bring her another cocktail but that’s probably just around the corner.