Sheila Dillon

Her mother worked as a weaver and her father was a barber who came from a farming family in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

She then undertook postgraduate work in the American Midwest before getting a job in publishing at the Indiana University Press.

[2] During her time at Little Brown & Co Publishers, she was involved in a landmark sex discrimination case pertaining to issues of equal pay which helped change discriminatory employment practices in the USA.

In 2010, Dillon received an "Outstanding Achievement Award" from Observer Food Monthly magazine and was one of the "100 Leading Influential Ladies".

In 2013, she spoke to Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour about her experience of the disease and her views on how diet can affect recovery.