“A cross between Yvette Cooper and Delia Smith, with tattoos. ”
Jack Monroe was a 25-year-old mother and local newspaper reporter. She found herself with a food budget of just £10 a week and began to create nutritious recipes to feed herself and her son. Giving the recipes out to a local food bank, to help others in her situation, she then began to publish them online on her blog, A Girl Called Jack, which now has thousands of followers. Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum and Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that her blog has had. Jack’s first book, A Girl Called Jack was published this year and went straight in at number 1.