About Gaby
Gaby is a TV producer with credits across a range of factual genres from current affairs to drama reconstruction and docu-soap, including Crimewatch UK, Watchdog and Holocaust Memorial Day. Her work as a print journalist has appeared in titles as diverse as The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Tribune and the Jewish Chronicle. Her prize-winning debut novel Reparation (2019) was inspired by her Hungarian refugee mother. A film-lover and member of BAFTA, The Making of Psycho is her first non-fiction book.
Gaby has enjoyed a decades-long television career, working across the range of factual genres from current affairs to drama reconstruction and docu-soap, on daily, weekly and monthly shows. The highlights include her 13-part series Diet Trials which combined authentic university-run science with engrossing human stories. For The Experiment (2002) fifteen volunteers were locked into a prison inside a TV studio and randomly assigned the roles of prisoner and guards, their reactions observed by leading psychologists. The resulting programmes are still studied at A level and first degree. She produced the national event for Britain's first ever Holocaust Memorial Day in 2001, broadcast on BBC2. Her credits also include Child of Our Time, Crimewatch UK and Rip Off Britain.
In 2019 Gaby published her debut novel Reparation, winner of the Christopher Little Award, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and runner-up for the Society of Authors' Paul Torday Prize, for which she has since been a judge.
Gaby's career started on the Hastings & St Leonards Observer, covering town hall politics, petty crime, arts & entertainment and local celebrities including Paul McCartney. Alongside the day job she started freelancing and has never stopped, writing for papers as diverse as The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Tribune and the Jewish Chronicle. Her work has also appeared in Saga magazine, Woman's Own and Jewish Renaissance magazine.
Born in Cardiff to refugees from Germany and Hungary, Gaby lives in London with her husband Stephen, a film maker and psychotherapist.