Welcome to my website, which has a few facts about me and my novel Izobel Brannigan.com, which is published as Cyber Cinderella in the US.

I was born in August 1969 to parents of English, American, Swedish and Peruvian stock.

I went to four convents called St Mary’s (my parents are Catholics).

I read Modern History at Oxford and learnt little but how to do really well at exams.

My subsequent jobs included writing children’s books, designing Spanish educational books (though I’m neither Spanish nor a designer), editing the Evening Standard’s website and working for Carlton Television.

While at Carlton I wrote a novel before work over the space of a year. It was rubbish so I chucked in my job and wrote Izobel Brannigan.com. The idea for it came to me one day when I was googling everyone I knew while bored in the office, “wouldn’t it be funny…” I thought.

In just one year, I got married, got an agent and publisher, got pregnant, got a Ford Focus Estate and moved house. I now live in North London with my husband and son, William, and am expecting another baby in November.

As well as writing my next novel, about the consequences that a baby conceived in surprising circumstances has for a group of friends, I write features for The Telegraph, The Guardian, Grazia, Red Magazine and Junior Pregnancy & Baby. I have also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. You can find a podcast of my appearance here.

You can also find out a bit more about me on my US publishers’ website, Hatchette Book Group USA. Here’s my biography and some thoughts on the dangers of writing novels about ex-boyfriends.

Like Izobel, I’m horrified by the idea of having my own web page. Unlike Izobel, I’m creating this site myself, with the help of emperor of design, Scott Bedford.

I work from home so welcome distractions, email me on xtina_hopkinson@yahoo.co.uk