Harriet Waugh

Harriet Waugh was born in Somerset, England, a daughter of writer Evelyn Waugh and his wife Laura Herbert. She worked as a publisher's reader and has written several blackly comic novels of domestic intrigue among affluent middle-class families. Her first, Mirror, Mirror (1973) was followed by Mother's Footsteps (1978), Kate's House (1983), and The Chaplet of Pearls (1997). She also writes for The Spectator.