This page is mainly for those of you who are thinking of offering me work. (Oh go on - do. Please. I'm awfully good, really.)

If anyone non work-related has stumbled across it then be warned: it's just a list of all my least crap moments - I'm trying to make a good impression, see? - so is best avoided. Nobody likes a lady to tell them how great she is. Still, here I go...

Liz was born and raised in Oxford, and attended the European School in Culham for twelve years.

She lived in both Germany and France for a short time as a child, picking up fluent French and German, and basic Czech from her mother. This linguistic background, combined with the very broad European Baccalaureat - she specialised in science - gave her a very broad Secondary education. In her final year of school she was the leader of the Thames Vale Youth Orchestra, culminating in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, and played hockey for Oxford Hockey Club.

After school Liz took a year off in 1993, working in the Oxford University Physiology Department, flirting - sorry - waitressing at Browns, Oxford, and teaching the piano and violin to earn as much dosh as possible. She blew all of this on the trip of her life, back-packing on her own around the world, through Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Then followed three years at Clare College, Cambridge, reading Natural Sciences (Psychology/Neuroscience), coxing, playing hockey and competing in the Varsity Match for the University Athletics Club, where she ran a very poor 1500m, and entered the high jump at the very last minute, humiliating herself in front of cheering crowds. Ah well.

After graduation, Liz settled in Cambridge and embarked on her media career, starting off with short science documentaries she researched, filmed and presented herself, the idea being to make some of the amazing research going on at the University more approachable and understandable to the general public. The jury is still out as to whether she succeeded, but as the films were only ever screened on a local cable channel, she fears the answer is probably 'no'.

These efforts, however, lead to a job a Red TV, producing, editing and presenting a daily 3-hour live programme, as well as producing and presenting the news, producing her own Red Science slot (complete with the amazing live exploding volcano experiment) and even live cookery! Not always very successful, that last bit...

A move to greater things beckoned, and Liz moved to the BBC where she presented (to her eternal embarrassment, but with very fond memories and much gratitude) Friday Live and Kicking, followed by the Holiday Programme, both for BBC 1. More presenting followed, including The Virtual Body for Channel 4 and many educational programmes for schools, and then Liz decided she was spending too much time away from her two very young daughters and so decided to bow out for a while and spend more time with nappies and toddler groups.

During this time she took a film course and set up a film production company to write and make simple, non-aggressive, non-terrifying, live-action films for very young children. Having written, directed and screened her first film, finding funding to continue proved almost impossible, and she decided to put film-making on hold for another time.

The writing bug, always present but not so far realised, had taken hold and by the time her third child was born in 2003, a career as a writer had well and truly started. Writing first for local publications and then eventually for nationals, she finally summed up the courage to approach an agent with her idea for a book written with style, wit and intelligence for pregnant women and new mothers.

The Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide was published in 2006 and was an instant best-seller.

A follow-up book, The Family Handbook, was published in 2007 and was also in the best-seller charts, and she is now writing her third book about parenting to be published in February 2009.

Liz lives in Cambridge with her long-suffering husband and three delightful children, and is currently renovating an old house, while living in it with her family. Some would, quite rightly, say this was foolish. Liz is starting to agree...

She is still a very keen runner, competing regularly in 10km and 5km races, and is now a very determined but utterly pathetic novice ballet dancer.

She has spoken out about her past battles with eating disorders and depression, in a bid to help others who are suffering what she has so luckily overcome. Liz does voluntary work for the NSPCC and for Clic Sargeant, the charity for children with leukaemia. She is passionate about giving all children the very best chance to enjoy their childhood and develop into strong, capable, thoughtful, happy adults, and hopes to continue her work to make this happen for as long as she can.