Education
She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, and Hammersmith and West London College.
She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, and Hammersmith and West London College.
Flett began her career as a staff writer for i-Doctorate Magazine in 1985. This was followed by a period as features editor and fashion editor of The Face (1987-1989), three years as a freelancer, and then editor of Arena magazine from 1992-1995. In 1995, at the age of 31, Flett joined The Observer as associate editor of the magazine Observer Life, later becoming a features writer and television critic on the newspaper.
Flett found an outlet for her grief by writing about the break-up in gory detail, week-by-week, in her Observer newspaper column.
She published a book about the relationship, The Heart-shaped Bullet () in 1999. Since 2004, Flett has starred in the British Broadcasting Corporation television’s Grumpy Old Women series and, in 2008, was a judge on Channel 4’s Mission Naked Beauty.
Her first novel, Separate Lives, was published July 2012 by Quercus Books.
