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Hephzibah Anderson graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature and has worked as a journalist ever since. She was Fiction Editor at the Daily Mail until 2007, and wrote on debut fiction for the Observer for five years. She now works freelance as a critic, feature writer and broadcaster for various British and international outlets including Vogue, Bloomberg Muse, and BBC Radio Five Live.
This memoir of notches not carved is surprisingly readable, displaying a melancholy tenderness and candid self-awareness rarely found in confessional writing ... Chastened feels like a genuine attempt to find a solution to a loveless life, and articulates the thoughts of many single women with a purposeful freshness -- Ariane Sherine * Observer * Her book is tender, clever, heartbreaking and funny ... every single woman and man should read it before even thinking of going on a date again -- Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday * Fascinating, revealing and bravely honest work...Anderson focuses on the much-maligned concepts of love, courtship and the intimacies of chastity -- Paul Blezard * The Week * In the course of this sexless year, she flirts, texts and (platonically) romps her way through innumerable encounters...however with Chastened you get what it says on the cover: no Sex in the City -- Melanie Mcgrath * The Scotsman * Chastened is more than fashionable dinky. One hopes that Anderson will write the novels that are evidently within her * Independent *
