510“It was something my sister’s friend said,” she explained, referring to the novelist Lucie Whitehouse, who said the bad guy in her latest book was to inherit our subject’s eyes.

Our heroine added: “The book that ‘I’ am going to be in is called The Bed I Made and my eyes have been given to a "sexy but dangerous" character called Richard.”

The novel in question is being published by Bloomsbury in the spring of 2010. It was a shame to cover up such a smiley, happy face for this photo, but it was the best pose given her choice of SOTM. Taken in Starbucks in Camden, London.