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As a freelance journalist for over 25 years, specialising in health issues, Wendy has written for most national newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Sunday Telegraph, as well as for professional and consumer magazines such as the British Medical Journal and History Today. She edited a website on stress for Channel 4 for several years. She has won several awards for her journalism. She currently writes a column on medical history for the BMJ and articles for The Times, Sunday Telegraph and other media.

Wendy’s first book, THE KNIFE MAN, won the Medical Journalists’ Association Consumer Book Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the biennial Marsh Biography Award. Her second book, WEDLOCK, which tells the true story of the remarkable marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, has been highly acclaimed in reviews. 

Wendy lives in London with her husband Peter, who is also a journalist, and two children, Sam (15) and Susie (12).