Lynn Barber

Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944)[1] is a British journalist who has worked for many publications, including The Sunday Times.

She was once quoted by Will Self as describing her method as "start[ing] ... from a position of really disliking people, and then compel[ling] them to win you over.

[1] Its genesis was in a short piece on a similar theme that Barber wrote for the British literary magazine Granta.

In the meantime Barber had expanded the Granta article into her memoir, too late for Hornby to use it as source material for the film.

[18] Following the end of a different relationship, Barber slept with as many as 50 men[19] before meeting fellow student David Cardiff, whom she married in 1971.