Rebecca Reid

Rebecca Reid is a British author, journalist, and broadcaster. She writes contemporary fiction and non-fiction on relationships and culture. She is best known for her novel Perfect Liars (2018) and her recent release, Stella Is Starting Over (2026).

Rebecca Reid studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She began her career as a freelance journalist and columnist. She served as digital editor of Grazia magazine. She later wrote for Stylist, The Independent, The Guardian, and The Times.

Rebecca also contributed to Marie Claire, The New Statesman, and Glamour. She became a columnist for The i Paper. She remains a regular contributor to the Telegraph's culture section. She also frequently appears on Good Morning Britain and Sky News.

Reid published her debut novel, Perfect Liars, with Transworld. She has said that the idea for the novel originated from a question she had in her school days. She wondered what Lord of the Flies would look like with girls. She described the result as 'an adult British Mean Girls with murder'.

Reid followed her debut with two further novels: Truth Hurts and Two Wrongs were both published by Transworld. She then published The Will with Penguin Random House. All three continued her focus on female friendship and deception.

Rebecca Reid also branched out into non-fiction with The Power of Rude. The book was published by Orion's Trapeze imprint. It examined assertiveness and the social expectations placed on women.

She returned to fiction with Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage. Bloomsbury General published the novel, her first with the imprint. The story follows a woman navigating tension within her marriage.

In August 2026, Reid published Stella Is Starting Over. Bloomsbury released the novel as her most recent work. The book follows Stella, a woman divorced in her early thirties. She raises a young baby while managing a house in need of renovation.

Stella develops a plan to date different types of men. She categorises them by type, including the Gentleman and the Poet. She also dates a No Strings Attached Guy for casual company. A man named Dom does not fit these categories and becomes her friend instead.

Stella eventually meets a man who seems perfect on paper. Her plans begin to come together as expected. The novel questions whether love ever follows such careful rules.

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