Daisy Goodwin is an historian, journalist, editor and novelist, and has a long career in British television, devising shows including Bookworm, The Nation's Favourite Poems, Home Front and Grand Designs. Her drama series, Victoria, is based on her novel Victoria (Headline, ISBN 9780755396108), about the early life of a small, emotionally deprived teenager who woke up one morning to find herself Queen of England, the most powerful woman in the world.