Bumps In The Road

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 4 including Just a Minute, 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 heart-wrenchingly moving as it is laugh-out-loud funny.’ Nigella Lawson‘Brutally, hilariously, scandalously honest. I inhaled it in one sitting.’ Caroline Quentin‘Funny, charming and heartbreaking.’ India Knight – author of DARLING.‘I’ve known Maria for over thirty years but apparently I’ve only talked about myself, because I scarcely knew anything of these fascinating, hilarious and heartbreaking stories.’ Graham Norton