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Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University before going into journalism. Sam has edited some of the UK's biggest magazines. After successfully re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of Company. She was also editor of Cosmopolitan in the UK and is now editor-in-chief of Red. She has one grown-up stepson and lives between Winchester and central London with her husband, the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood.