How to Break Your Own Heart

Maggie Alderson was born in London, brought up in Staffordshire and educated at the University of St Andrews. She has worked on nine magazines – editing four of them – and is currently a fashion columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Times. Her first two novels, Pants of Fire, and Mad About the Boy were bestsellers in Australia and the UK, and she was a co-editor of the charity anthology Big Night Out, in aid of War Child. She has also published two collections of non-fiction: Shoe Money and Handbag Heaven. She is married and moves a lot. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.

Catherine Milte has worked both on stage and in television, where her credits include Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Halifax FP and The Fast Lane. She is also familiar to listeners of ABC Radio National's The Book Reading and Poetica and is a recipient of the TDK Australian Audio Book Award for Narrator of the Year.