BUMPS IN THE ROAD - a memoir

Maria McErlane is an actor, writer and broadcaster.She spent five years as a columnist on the Sunday Times, covered restaurant reviews and wrote multiple features. She has written for the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard and had a monthly column for Esquire magazine.Her television credits are many, including The Fast Show, Killing Eve, Eastenders, Fat Friends, HIGNFY, Holby City and ten years as the voice of Eurotrash.She has worked as a broadcaster on BBC Radio 2 and is well known for her weekly contributions on the long running Graham Norton show as an agony aunt in the ‘Grill Graham’ slot.She has written and presented radio documentaries and appeared on a variety of shows for Radio Four including Just a Minute, the long running Foul Play and the News Quiz.For the past three years Maria has worked as the weekend agony aunt at Virgin Radiowith Graham Norton.Maria lives in Hastings, has a toy poodle, a paddle board and swims in the sea all year round.She has two bicycles that are rarely out of use.This is her first book.

“As a former leading light in the Legion of Mary and an also-ran for Pope, I can confirm that Maria McErlane is a naughty blasphemer who is destined for the Bad Fire. She is also a national treasure. If you could bottle her spirit, we would all be drinking a case a day by now. Bumps in the Road is completely hilarious — full of priceless insights, brilliant memories, perfect truths and top advice. What a cracking book. It should be given out free on the NHS. Meanwhile, buy it for everybody you love.” Andrew O’Hagan, author of Mayflies