She won a scholarship to Bruton School for Girls, and later read Russian and French at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree.
At age 21, she spent a year in Saint Petersburg as part of her Russian course, and had relationship with the lead guitarist of a rock band from Ukraine.
[17] She has also conducted interviews in French, including one with the surviving daughter of Suite Francaise author Irène Némirovsky.
[31] Her second book, The Anna Karenina Fix, Life Lessons From Russian Literature, was published by Penguin on 5 October 2017.
Her subsequent books have been Life as you Climb (2021), about ambitious women striving for success while helping others on the way; Happy High Status (2023), on feeling confident without pretending to be someone one is not; and One Ukrainian Summer (2024), an account of her time as a student in Russia.
Groskop was the artistic director of the Bath Literature Festival, the first season under her charge being held in February 2014,[36] and the last in 2016 when "the much-loved chief was waved off with a raucous party".