Lucy Denyer

London

Editor, Writer and Content Producer at Freelance

Writer of words; formerly Deputy Editor of Long Reads and @TelegraphMag. Mine's a dirty vodka martini.

Articles

Is butter better for you than low-fat spreads?

6 days ago | thetimes.com | Lucy Denyer

Butter is enjoying a golden moment. Social media feeds extol its virtues over lower-fat spreads and the crime thriller Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, shot to the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list earlier this year, luring readers in with its seductive title and yellow jacket. It appears full fat is back in fashion, perhaps due to a growing awareness of ultra-processed foods.
Is my cortisol level to blame for my irritable mood?

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Lucy Denyer
What to eat to preserve your eyesight

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Lucy Denyer
My son struggled when we moved to a new school and town - but I don't regret it

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Lucy Denyer

Two years ago, my family moved from London, where we’d lived for the whole of our three children’s lives, to the other end of the country, 200 miles away in York. My eldest, then 12, handled the move with relative aplomb. My youngest, who was six, threw himself with great gusto into his new school, making friends immediately.
A scientific formula for the perfect bath

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lucy Denyer

Last night at around 7pm I turned the taps on, poured in a careful dribble of my favourite, wildly expensive Olverum bath oil (recently granted a royal warrant by the King, no less) and ran myself the hottest bath I could bear into which I sank, tingling slightly as my skin hit the water, to enjoy a good half an hour of luxurious soaking.
The formula of the perfect bath

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Denyer

In Britain we take an average of 96 baths a year - and from the ideal depth to precise temperature, there's a fine art to itLast night at around 7pm I turned the taps on, poured in a careful dribble of my favourite, wildly expensive Olverum bath oil ( recently granted a royal warrant by the King, no less) and ran myself the hottest bath I could bear into which I sank, tingling slightly as my skin hit the water, to enjoy a good half an hour of luxurious soaking.
A wild road-trip with your father's corpse? It's quite the story

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Denyer

When Sofka Zinovieff's beloved father died in 2021, she and her five siblings were told that they weren't allowed to attend his funeral. It was his and his fourth wife's wish that only the latter should be there. Zinovieff, a British novelist and journalist, did not proceed to steal her father's body from a funeral home and abscond with it to a remote Scottish island in order to carry out her own last rites.
Which contraception works best for you? Meet the woman trying to find out

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Lucy Denyer
'My friends in Runcorn have all been laughing at my Farage poster. Who's laughing now?'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Denyer

The Telegraph speaks to residents and the Reform leader himself after the party's record-breaking by-election victoryKelly O'Brien jubilantly hands me a coffee with a big grin. "I am absolutely ecstatic," she says, enthusiastically shovelling ham-and-cheese croissants into a microwave.
Britain has a road rage problem. Stalking and death threats are the new normal

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Denyer

Reduced speed limits, increased congestion and potholes galore are making this country's drivers angrier than ever - with drastic outcomesIt's a beautiful, balmy day in early April, the sun is shining and the sky is blue. And yet my body is tense, my temper short and my blood pressure high. The reason? I've got to get in my car - again - and navigate the narrow, traffic-choked, infinitely infuriating road system in York, where I live.