Marguerite Ellis

I asked four people who do this for a living what they would keep if they could only keep three products. Nobody said anything I expected.

I logged every item I wore for six months. Eleven things accounted for more than half of it, and almost none of them were the ones I would have guessed.

Nine days on the north coast, well away from the postcard version, in a car that smelled of wet dog by the second afternoon.

Three years of writing down every dinner, and the surprisingly short list of things we actually cook.