Sue Carroll Sue Carroll Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Carroll (6 December 1953 – 25 December 2011) was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the "Daily Mirror". Carroll was born in 1953 at Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After leaving Gosforth Grammar School she joined D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland. Working on the weekly teenage girls magazine "Jackie" she assisted on its "Cathy and Claire" problem page and then moved on to write the magazines fashion and beauty features. Aged 20 she moved to London to work as features editor for "Woman". Employed for her ability to extract
Cathy Hopkins Press) and the "Zodiac Girls" series (published by Kingfisher/Macmillan Publishers) and the Million Dollar Mates series published by Simon and Schuster. She also wrote four stand alone novels for teenagers which are "Holy Moley, I'm a Dead Dude" for Chickenhouse, Playlist for a Broken Heart and "Love At Second Sight" and A Home for Shimmer for Simon and Schuster. More recently, Cathy started writing for the older market and her first novel for adults was published in March 2017 by HarperCollins and is called The Kicking the Bucket List. Her second title, Dancing Over The Hill, was published in January