Bridget Harrison is a freelance journalist and editor based in London who contributes to The Times, Daily Mail, Red Magazine and BBC Radio London. She has also written for Elle, Grazia, Sunday Time Style, GQ, Cosmopolitan among others. She was formerly the deputy editor of thelondonpaper

Thelondonpaper

The London Paper was a free daily newspaper, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International...

http://www.thelondonpaper.com, a free London

London

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 newspaper published by News International which had a circulation of 500,000 and closed in September 2009. Before this she worked at the New York Post from 2000 to 2005 as a reporter, columnist and editor. Before this she was an assistant features editor at The Times. Her book Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr Right in All the Wrong Places ISBN 0-7382-1044-7 chronicles her dating experience and the trials and tribulation as a 30-something single woman in New York City

New York City

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. Unlike "Sex and the City

Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...

" by Candace Bushnell

Candace Bushnell

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, the book is a memoir

Memoir

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 rather than a fiction

Fiction

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, although the names of many characters in the book have been changed to protect their identity. In 2008 Bridget Harrison married Dimitri Doganis, MD of Raw Television, they have two sons. Bridget Harrison was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Manchester University and has a MSc.in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies, London.