In Pursuit of Happiness

Engaging, honest and funny…Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime’s dreams - and make it funny. Whatever happens next in her life, I want to read it. – Marianne Power * The Sunday Times *Astonishing - generous, raw, hilarious and chaotic in the best possible way. Adored it. – Daisy Buchanan * author of Insatiable, Careering and Limelight *Bold, raw, moving, shocking; very funny and very sad. This is a book for anyone who has loved…and got a little lost. – Polly VernonGripping - sometimes sad, often very funny and always jaw-droppingly honest * The Times *DYNAMITE…a brilliant, wise and hugely entertaining read – Anne-Marie Curtis * former editor-in-chief ELLE UK *Inhaled this! – Sam Baker * author of The Shift *

Stacey Duguid is a journalist and fashion editor. She frequently writes for the Telegraph, The Times and the Sunday Times Style. In 2004, Stacey joined British ELLE as Executive Fashion Editor and during this time, she wrote the award-winning column ‘Mademoiselle, Confessions of an ELLE Girl’. Featuring on the back cover of ELLE for over half a decade, the column was a fictionalised version of her life as a single woman living in London. Whilst heavily pregnant with her second child, she resigned the position and began freelancing for Matches Fashion, Net-A-Porter and many more fashion retailers. Following her marital breakdown, she poured a broken heart into ‘The Midlife Dating Diaries’, a column that ran for two years in the Saturday Telegraph. Leaving the column to write this book (and thereby not leaving bed for several months) and growing tired of being in meetings where people chirp ‘we can churn out seventy blogs using AI’, Duguid is currently gently stewing in a career-crisis casserole dish of her own making. Other future career options include renting herself out as an Emily Blunt lookalike or selling her knickers online.