Helen Walmsley-Johnson

Helen Walmsley-Johnson is the author of the Guardian’s ‘The Vintage Years’ column, which has 65,000 regular readers. She worked for the Daily Telegraph, before joining the Guardian as Alan Rusbridger’s PA for seven years, then began her column. Her book about middle-age, The Invisible Woman, was published to great acclaim in 2015. She lives in Rutland. Her experience surviving coercive control is powerfully told in her personal memoir Look What You Made Me Do. She lives in a village in the Midlands.