Career
With the same publisher. In 2009 her fifth book, How to Lose a Husband and Gain a Life, followed in 2010 by Why Do We Have to Live with Men?, both published by Little, Brown. In 2013 her seventh novel, The Valentine"s Card was published by Little, Brown under the pseudonym of Juliet Ashton.
She also writes screen and theatre works under her maiden name of Bernie Gaughan.
Bernadette Strachan was born in Fulham, London into an Irish Catholic family. Prior to becoming an author she worked in the media as a radio advertising producer and subsequently as an agent for voiceover artists.