Cristina Odone is the founder and chair of the Parenting Circle Charity.
14 Facts About Cristina Odone
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Cristina Odone is currently Head of the Family Policy Unit at the Centre for Social Justice.
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Cristina Odone's half-brother was Lorenzo Odone, after whom Lorenzo's oil is named.
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Cristina Odone's father was a World Bank official, which led to the family regularly moving.
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Cristina Odone went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School, Washington, DC After her parents' divorce, Cristina Odone moved to Britain to go to St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford.
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Cristina Odone studied French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford.
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Cristina Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC, as an advisor to European companies.
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Cristina Odone resigned from The Catholic Herald to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife.
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In 1996, Cristina Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph, a position she held for two years.
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In 1998, Cristina Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman.
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For six years Cristina Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer.
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In 2005, Cristina Odone wrote and presented a Channel 4 documentary directed by David Malone called Dispatches: Women Bishops.
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Cristina Odone has written four novels: The Shrine, A Perfect Wife, The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew and The Good Divorce Guide She contributed to Why I am still a Catholic.
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Cristina Odone is married to Edward Lucas, a writer for The Economist magazine.