Sarah Ivens, PhD, is the best-selling author of eleven lifestyle and wellness books, including A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Hitched and Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You, and the founding Editor in Chief of OK! magazine in the US. A Londoner, who now lives in Canterbury, Kent, after 19 years in the US, where she ran OK! magazine in New York City, worked for the drama development team at HBO and certified as a life coach in Los Angeles and learned how to two-step in Texas.She holds a PhD in Comparative Humanities from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, her work focusing on the changes and choices faced by women during the reign of Elizabeth II, and how the ideas of home and homeland shape a woman's life. She has given lectures at universities around the world and written for academic journals on socioeconomic class and gender. She also has an MA in English Literature and has collaborated as a ghostwriter with many celebrities on their bestselling memoirs and self-help books.

"'Sarah Ivens' guide could be the answer to your prayers' Woman's Journal; 'An essential read' the Sun; 'A must read' Company magazine; 'Fabulous true-life tips' Hot Stars magazine"