Kathryn Flett
Worldly writer
Kathryn Flett has spent 27 years as an award-winning journalist, editor and author without anyone realising she has no qualifications whatsoever... it is just as well she didn't choose medicine as a career. As a former writer on i-D magazine and then as fashion and features editor of The Face, Kathryn's 1980s were a (stylish) blur. In the 1990s, while editor of the men's magazine, Arena, she spent far too much time travelling and staying in fabulous hotels. Waking up alone in LA's Chateau Marmont on 25 December may not be everyone's idea of the perfect Christmas, but it was for Kathryn. A staff writer and columnist on the Observer for 15 years, Kathryn wrote mostly about food and TV (occasionally simultaneously). Having escaped London in 2005, she now lives in Random-on-Sea, a small town on the south coast, with her two sons, two cats and two guinea pigs. Her first novel, Separate Lives (Quercus, £7.99) hits shelves July 2012.
Kathryn Flett anonymously reviewed the following hotels: