Hester Underhill

Growing up on 13 Going on 30 and the like, ‘there was a part of my brain that held on to the idea that being a journalist was the coolest job in the world’. Most recently, the writer has worked on the magazine Cinemagoer, for which she interviewed Tilda Swinton – ‘a real career highlight. I’m drawn to big characters for sure.’ That much is clear from her subject on page, Peppino Dore, who crafted his own Sardinian palace.