Lucy Mangan (born 1974) is British journalist and columnist who has written regular columns and TV reviews for The Guardian newspaper since 2003. A collection of her columns in Guardian Weekend magazine was published as a book in May 2009 titled My Family and Other Disasters. She has also written a book satirising her personal experiences growing up called Hopscotch and Handbags: The Essential Guide to Being a Girl, and an account of her wedding, The Reluctant Bride. She is congenitally anosmic, i.e. she was born with no sense of smell. Mangan was educated at Catford and Cambridge, where she studied law.
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