Brigid Delaney is a former lawyer turned journalist. She has been a staff writer and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and worked in digital news and on the foreign desk at the Telegraph. Her writing has appeared in The Age, Martha's Vineyard Gazette, and The Guardian. She has contributed a short story to Some Girls Do (Allen and Unwin, 2007) and an essay for Griffith Review 's Next Big Thing issue. Brigid's book about young people and consumer culture called The Restless Life: Churning through Love, Work and Play was published by Melbourne University Press. She is currently based in London, where she works as a feature writer for CNN.com and contributes to features and opinion pieces to Fairfax newspapers in Melbourne and Sydney.