Daisy Goodwin

1 week ago | theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com | Daisy Goodwin |Leah McLaren |Elissa Altman

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2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Daisy Goodwin |Stuart Heritage

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Katie Glass |Daisy Goodwin

Just as we are revving ourselves up for the annual guilt fest that is Mother's Day, the BBC has released Amandaland, a gloriously toxic spin-off from Motherland starring Lucy Punch as the Uber Mean Girl Mother who, after a divorce, has had to leave the leafy purlieus of Chiswick for SoHa (which is one way of describing south Harlesden). She has traded in the limestone master-of-the-universe kitchen for a modest maisonette.

Nov 13, 2024 | thetimes.com | Daisy Goodwin

I have been called many things: precocious, clumsy, confident, rude, sexy, kind, thoughtless, late — but never thin. On my first day directing at the BBC, the cameraman said to me, “You’ve got a pretty face, love, but you’re built for comfort, not for speed.” A few years later, at a party in the Hamptons, Long Island, I was just about to put a brownie in my mouth when a woman the width of a pencil waved an admonishing finger at me: “A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.

Sep 12, 2024 | l8r.it | Daisy Goodwin |Ken Follett |Angela Sims |Victoria Hislop

Daisy Goodwin Press Reviews 'I was blown away by Diva. Beautiful, visceral, tragic, gutting.' -- Miranda Cowley Heller - #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace'The spectacular Daisy Goodwin has written Diva, an epic novel about Maria Callas in love that hits every note and soars off the page. You will root for Callas as she navigates her dynamic career and a love affair that will break her heart.