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Shirley Conran OBE (née Pearce; born 21 September 1932) is a British novelist and journalist.

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Shirley Conran
Born	Shirley Pearce (1932-09-21) 21 September 1932 (age 89)
Spouse(s)	Terence Conran ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1962)​
Children	Sebastian Conran Jasper Conran

Career

Conran has written for Vanity Fair, women's editor of The Daily Mail and The Observer.^{[citation needed]} Published in 1982, her book Lace spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, reaching as high as No. 6,[1][2] and was adapted into a 1980s US miniseries.[3]

Her book, Lace, was published by Simon & Schuster and is reported to be the original source for the marketing tag line, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"[3]

Personal life

Conran has been married to Sir Terence Conran; they are the parents of two sons: Sebastian Orby Conran and Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran, both designers. In 2009, she wrote that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome.[4] Conran has homes in France and London, and lived in Monaco for several years.[5] She founded the educational non-profit Maths Action.[6]

Works

Fiction

• Lace (Simon & Schuster, 1982)
• Lace 2 (1985)
• The Complete Story (omnibus, 1986)
• Savages (1987, movie rights owned by Warner Brothers but never made)
• The Amazing Umbrella Shop (1990 - children's book co-authored with her children Jasper and Sebastian Conran)
• Crimson (1992)
• Tiger Eyes (1994)
• The Revenge (aka Revenge of Mimi Quinn, 1998)

Non-fiction

• Superwoman (1975), see Superwoman (sociology)
• Superwoman 2 (1977)
• Futurewoman: How to Survive Life After Thirty (1979)
• Superwoman in Action (1979)
• The Magic Garden (1983)
• Down with Superwoman: For Everyone Who Hates Housework (1990)
• Money Stuff (2014)

Other

• The Magic Garden was adapted as a computer program and published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro as Shirley Conran's Magic Garden.

References

External links

• Official website
• Sarah Hughes: 'What trashy novels taught me about life', Observer Books, 31 January 2021

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