Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren has been a national columnist and feature writer with The Globe and Mail since 1999. From 2002-2004 she served as London correspondent, and was nominated for a National Newspaper Award for her work there.
Her first novel, The Continuity Girl, published by HarperCollins Canada and Warner US, was an instant national bestseller, spending nine weeks on the Globe and Mail bestseller list.
Her screenplay, Abroad, based on her experiences as a Canadian reporter in London, was produced and shot as a feature-length television movie for CBC television last year, starring Liane Balaban. Leah is currently developing the ongoing series for CBC and is simultaneously at work on her second novel for HarperCollins.
Her writing has also been published in The Sunday Telegraph, The London Evening Standard, The Times of London, Fashion, Flare and Report on Business and the Spectator, for whom she served as a regular contributor under the eccentric editorship of Boris Johnson.
Leah attended McGill and Trent Universities and graduated with an honours degree in English Literature. She was born in rural Ontario, grew up in a small town and now splits her time between Toronto and London, England.
The secret life of psychiatrists
Pop culture has stereotyped shrinks as unhappy, unstable eccentrics, but is there some truth to the myth?
If imitation is a form of flattery, I owe my Twitter impersonator a beer
The truth is, having a Twitter impersonator appeals to my lazy side. Don't most real celebrities actually pay someone else to do it for them?
Women have never striven more for less
Females are willing to do more work than men for less credit, a reality that will always keep our daughters down no matter how diligent they are in school and work. And it isn't a new story
I'm keeping my eyes off the literary prize
This fall, I won't be reading any of the nominated books. And I don't feel guilty about it either.
Forget comfort food, give me comfort clothes
Certain garments actually become our friends and family, offering us a sense of stability, security and home
Uselessness is in the eye of the beholder...
...and it's pointless to argue about it
Travel with your parents puts the fun in dysfunctional
Playing tourist with your folks is the ultimate package deal: familial bliss and regressive misery rolled up in one super-expensive, divinely scenic bundle
Sex and the City: The Platinum Years
The blogs have been buzzing about an alleged script leak from Sex and the City 2. We've got one of our own. Spoiler alert: This one's really Big!
Why sisters can't escape the Cinderella curse
Real-life sisters rarely seem to use their bond to soar to great institutional heights in the way their male counterparts do
In my first year of university I wish I had ...
We asked six Globe and Mail writers to share their biggest regrets from the first year of university. From indulging with teachers to turning off the tube, here is what they would have done differently