[4] Aside from being a novelist, Wolff has worked as a radio producer and reporter for the BBC World Service.
[2][3] Wolff's first novel, The Trials of Tiffany Trott, was born in 1997 when The Daily Telegraph asked her to write a comic column.
[6] A Vintage Affair is also her first novel that reached a wider readership, including being published for the United States book market.
[7] Kirkus Reviews wrote that in The Very Picture of You (2011), Wolff handled multiple plotlines, balancing the stories of "betrayal, deception and remorse" told in the novel in a skillful manner.
[8] Wolff's novel, Ghostwritten (2014), deals with the largely unknown issue of civilians from South East Asia, many of them women and children, who were sent to live in concentration camps run by the Japanese during World War II.