Meet the author

Jenny Valentine.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1970

Jenny Valentine: Guardian Prize-winning author whose Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster brings warm, doodle-packed comedy to fans of Dork Diaries and Lottie Brooks.

Jenny Valentine is a British writer born in 1970, best known as a Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning author of fiction for older children and teenagers, whose debut Finding Violet Park announced a warm, sharply funny voice. In the corpus she turns that voice to younger comedy with The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster, a doodle-packed diary series in the Dork Diaries and Lottie Brooks mould. Ordinary Daisy has to share her decidedly unfamous life with Maxxy, her Hollywood child-star cousin, and across The Frenemies, The Drama Queens and The Superstars discovers the real girl behind the million followers. Told entirely as Daisy's list-strewn, aside-throwing diary, the books wrap laugh-out-loud jokes about fame and frenemies around a grounded, good-hearted story about staying true to yourself.