About The Author
Cat Buchanan
Cat Buchanan is a skilled nonfiction writer, television producer, and media lawyer. She has a varied educational background and has degrees from London School of Economics and Political Science, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Sarah Lawrence College. Cat started out in the legal field as in-house lawyer for Granada Television before moving to the independent production sector and became well-known for her critically praised rock ‘n’ roll documentaries.
Her love of narrative in the legal and artistic spheres inspired her to investigate nonfiction writing. Cat has lived in London for a long time and has managed to combine her passion for media with her artistic projects.
Having lived on both sides of the Atlantic, Cat’s life narrative is just as interesting as her career trajectory. She provides readers with an insight into the particular difficulties of wealth and family, having grown up between two opulent yet volatile worlds.
Her first memoir, Girl in Flight, describes how she navigated a complicated upbringing full of ambition, greed, and solipsism as the adoptive daughter of two affluent but dysfunctional parents. Cat raises awareness of the hidden hardships that lie beneath a life of privilege.
About The Book
Girl In Flight
The compelling memoir Girl in Flight tells the story of Cat Buchanan, an adopted child torn between the bright lights of luxury and the dark shadows of disorder. Brought up by affluent parents in the opulent locales of two different coasts, Cat experiences a traumatic upbringing due to a brutal custody dispute that shatters her family. She discovers the darker side of money, ambition, and dysfunction but in the middle of all of this commotion, Cat finds her own strength in humor and fortitude.
Girl in Flight transports readers on an emotional journey by exposing the hidden hardships behind an apparently ideal life and the strength of tenacity via unvarnished honesty and evocative writing.