Cristina Odone is a journalist and writer, author, broadcaster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. Cristina's novels for Harper Collins include The Good Divorce Guide and The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew. Her recent pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies, 'What REAL Women Want', focuses on the choices and challenges that women face today. An earlier pamphlet, 'In Bad Faith', defended the important contribution faith schools make. She writes for several newspapers, and was formerly the editor of The Catholic Herald, and deputy editor of the New Statesman.
The story of her parents' fight to save her half-brother, Lorenzo, from the rare condition that afflicted him, was dramatized in the 1992 Academy award–nominated film Lorenzo's Oil directed by George Miller.
Christina’s father was a World Bank official, which occasionally led to the family having to move to a different country. The family lived in Rome from 1962 to 1969, then moved to Washington DC, where they lived until 1977. She went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School.
When her parents divorced, Christina moved to the United Kingdom to go to St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford. She went on to study French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford.
After university, Odone worked briefly at The Catholic Herald in the United Kingdom, but left following a disagreement with the news editor, because he had published a letter by Victoria Gillick, an opponent of birth control. Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. as an advisor to European companies.
In 1991, Odone became the editor of The Catholic Herald. Christina resigned from The Catholic Herald in 1996 in order to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife.
In 1996, Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph, though she nearly lost the job immediately. In an interview with a journalist from The Guardian, she had said "Television? I never watch it." Days later, when the editor of the Telegraph asked her what she thought of television, she replied, "I love it". When he saw her earlier Guardian comment, he wasn’t best pleased but she kept her job, which she held for the next two years.
Christina has two novels published, The Shrine (1996) and A Perfect Wife (1997)
In 1998, Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman and left in November 2004.
For several years, Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer and she now writes regularly for newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph. She is also a regular contributor to the media.
Cristina Odone's recent booklet "What Women Want" for the Centre for Policy Studies has attracted widespread media comment, presenting data supporting the view that for many women going back to work after having children is a choice they are pressured into rather than actively wanting.
The story of her parents' fight to save her half-brother, Lorenzo, from the rare condition that afflicted him, was dramatized in the 1992 Academy award–nominated film Lorenzo's Oil directed by George Miller.
Christina’s father was a World Bank official, which occasionally led to the family having to move to a different country. The family lived in Rome from 1962 to 1969, then moved to Washington DC, where they lived until 1977. She went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School.
When her parents divorced, Christina moved to the United Kingdom to go to St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford. She went on to study French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford.
After university, Odone worked briefly at The Catholic Herald in the United Kingdom, but left following a disagreement with the news editor, because he had published a letter by Victoria Gillick, an opponent of birth control. Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. as an advisor to European companies.
In 1991, Odone became the editor of The Catholic Herald. Christina resigned from The Catholic Herald in 1996 in order to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife.
In 1996, Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph, though she nearly lost the job immediately. In an interview with a journalist from The Guardian, she had said "Television? I never watch it." Days later, when the editor of the Telegraph asked her what she thought of television, she replied, "I love it". When he saw her earlier Guardian comment, he wasn’t best pleased but she kept her job, which she held for the next two years.
Christina has two novels published, The Shrine (1996) and A Perfect Wife (1997)
In 1998, Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman and left in November 2004.
For several years, Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer and she now writes regularly for newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph. She is also a regular contributor to the media.
Cristina Odone's recent booklet "What Women Want" for the Centre for Policy Studies has attracted widespread media comment, presenting data supporting the view that for many women going back to work after having children is a choice they are pressured into rather than actively wanting.
Author, broadcaster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies Cristina's novels for Harper Collins include The Good Divorce Guide and The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew. Odone's recent pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies, 'What REAL Women Want', focuses on the choices and challenges that women face today.
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