Daisy Hay

DAISY HAY FRSL is an award-winning biographer whose previous works include Young Romantics (2010), Mr and Mrs Disraeli (2015) and Dinner with Joseph Johnson (2022). In 2020 she had an accident which caused a head injury. That injury, and the slow and difficult recovery that followed, prompted herto research and write The Book of Falling Women.She is currently Professor of English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and lives in Devon with her family.

Books by Daisy Hay

The Book of Falling Women

Daisy Hay

This is a story about how women pick themselves up and begin again.

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Daisy Hay

A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft

Mr and Mrs Disraeli

Daisy Hay

An engaging portrait of the surprisingly unconventional marriage between Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli from one of our best young non-fiction writers.