All At Sea

Decca Aitkenhead

Decca Aitkenhead is a journalist and broadcaster. She studied Politics at Manchester University before moving to London to work for the ‘Independent on Sunday’, and then for the ‘Guardian’. While writing ‘The Promised Land’, she and her husband lived in Jamaica, but they have now returned to London. She writes columns for the ‘Guardian’ and the London ‘Evening Standard’, and is a contributor to BBC Radio 4 and 5.