Justine Picardie was educated in London, Oxford, and Cambridge. She has worked as a journalist for the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Observer,and Marie Claire and currently writes for the Daily Telegraph, and is a contributing editor to Vogue.
Her book, "If The Spirit Moves You," chronicling her efforts to contact her deceased youngest sister, waspublished in the UK in 2002, where it has been on the bestseller lists. Thefilm rights have been sold, and a screenplay is currently being written,based on the book. Her next book, a novel called "Wish I May", is going to bepublished next January.