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About

I live mostly in France, which sounds show-offy but if you saw our house you would realise it really isn’t. My husband Andrew is a marine engineer and works a lot round here, and we have three children. Wallace is four and likes calamari, trampolining and making loud announcements about just how he will run the world when he is Spiderman; Michael-Francis is nearly two and likes singing lalala, tucking bears under his arms and peering dubiously at new food, and Delphie is brand new and likes sleeping and the way the sun moves across the tree leaves.

Stuff I like

About a million years ago I had my old website with a list on it of stuff I liked, and for some reason people liked it too. I don’t know why, it’s entirely solipsistic. Even though I am obviously against, you know, defining yourself by your possessions and interests, blah blah blah.

Doctor Who

Liz Jensen

Jon Ronson

Montblanc fountain pens

Bicycles

Half-Life

Spotify

The Wolseley

Skiing

Facebook

Pink wine

Trampolines

The Far Side

Mitchell & Webb AND Armstrong & Miller

Lau

Antwerp

Kate Rusby

Audi A2s

Swimming in the Sea

Diamorphine (oh, come on, it was just that one time when I was giving birth)

Elle McPherson bras

Big Brother (some years)

Stewart Lee

My blackberry

Playing the piano quite badly

Duran Duran

Margaritas

Japan

Aardman

Facebook

Converse low tops

Goran Ivanisevic

Oysters

The West Wing

The Netherlands

Stripey things

The National Dining Rooms

Stationery

Pedicures

Dim Sum

Dave Gorman

Kate Bush

Edinburgh Festival

Shakespeare in Love

Youtube

New York

TGV

Granny Smiths

30 Rock

Covent Garden Transport Museum

Twelve Monkeys

John Mayer (I know, what a dickwad. But some LOVELY songs)

Buffy and Angel

Chili linguini

Haagen Dazs Macadamia Nut Brittle

Typing of the Dead

The Wire (yes, yawn, I am a demographic marketer’s profile… but come on- STRINGER!!!)

Early Madonna

Spanx

Cartman

Launch parties (alas, a dying breed)

The Apprentice

More praise for Jenny’s books

‘Sharp and witty’ Observer

‘We laughed a lot’ Heat

‘Colgan’s talent as a stand-up comedian translates vividly into fiction’ Metro

‘Sharp, well-observed and hilarious’ New Statesman

‘Funny, magical and moving’ Time Out

‘Wonderful, warm and resonant’ Hello!

‘Colgan ties together her comedic talents with her flair for storytelling to create an offbeat, hilarious tale’ Amazon.co.uk

‘A delicious comedy. Will melt even the hardest of hearts’ Red

‘Hugely entertaining and very funny’ Cosmopolitan

‘Witty’ She