for NBN3 TV in New South Wales;
she was their arts reporter on News programmes and hosted her own weekly series,
Review, covering arts and entertainment. She also edited books, plays and film scripts for Currency Press and the Australian Film Institute and was Secretary of the Australian National Playwrights Conference.
After returning to the UK Lucy worked as a publishing editor, literary agent, and then Director of Development for Lifetime International Productions, an independent TV and video production company. She has developed and written numerous television programme and series concepts, including the ground-breaking
Lovers Guide series of videos and books - the first ever, 18-rated, graphic sex education films. She also worked on the children’s series
Rainbow, Desmond Morris’
Babywatching, Keith Floyd’s cooking programmes, and the
Y-Plan video exercise series, for which she also wrote the book.
Lucy became one of the UK’s top experts in Work-Life Balance after researching and writing about parenting and children’s issues for organisations such as the NSPCC, National Parenting Forum and Working Families. She is the author of self-help book
The Book of Balanced Living (Spiro Press 2002), the Industrial Society’s
Work Life Manual and
Get the Balance Right, a video-based training package.
Lucy does voluntary work in intercountry adoption and for a sheltered accommodation charity. She has two adult sons and lives in Norfolk with her two young daughters - both adopted from Russia.
Lucy is a media-friendly author; she has given numerous talks, radio and tv interviews and been featured in magazine and newspaper articles here and in Australia. She is available for talks, book signings, interviews, workshops sand public appearances.
Visit Lucy’s website for more details:
www.lucymccarraher.com
