EMMA MAHONY

MOST RECENT BOOK: Better Late Than Never: understand, survive and thrive a midlife diagnosis of ADHD

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RIGHTS SOLD: Trigger Publishing (UK)

Emma Mahony started out in editorial and publishing by launching her own magazine in 1990 called RASP! (Real Answers to Student Prospects) to help graduates find their dream job or career, which she sold after 5 years. She then joined The Times Newspaper as a Commissioning Editor and edited the pages for Pets, Property, Shopping, Food and Drink, Gardening, and Family Travel, before leaving to go freelance. She was a columnist to the Financial Times and The Times, and contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.

Following the birth of her three children, she also wrote two books published by HarperCollins –Double Trouble: Twins and how to survive them, and Stand and Deliver (and other brilliant ways to give birth). She was featured on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

In 2017, following a late diagnosis of ADHD, she retrained as a secondary school teacher of Spanish, French and Italian and has taught in 25 mainstream and independent schools.

In 2020 She wrote Better Late Than Never: how to survive and thrive a midlife diagnosis of ADHD, published by Trigger Publishing in 2020, and featured on BBC Woman’s Hour and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.

Her latest book on parenting children with ADHD will be published from 2025.

Her journalism and podcasts are available on www.emmamahony.com