Career
Sleeper recorded three full-length albums: Smart, The lieutenant Girl, and Pleased to Meet You. After the band split in 1998, Wener began a writing career and has written four novels: Goodnight Steve McQueen, The Big Blind (aka The Perfect Play) The Half Life of Stars and Worldwide Adventures In Love. Her autobiography, Different for Girls: My True-life Adventures in People’s (aka Just Foreign One Day: Adventures in Britpop) was published in June 2010 ().
In addition to writing herself, Wener has taught novel-writing.
By 2011, she and MacLure had married and moved to Brighton, where MacLure teaches at a music college. Wener has written an article about motherhood for The Guardian in which she was highly critical of the writer Lionel Shriver"s attitude toward the subject.
