Piper Terrett is a financial journalist, blogger and author and lives with her partner DJ and pet chickens in Essex, England. She writes the popular Frugal Life blog for MSN.co.uk ...view morePiper Terrett is a financial journalist, blogger and author and lives with her partner DJ and pet chickens in Essex, England. She writes the popular Frugal Life blog for MSN.co.uk which charts her adventures as she lives on a smaller budget, grows her own vegetables and undergoes moneysaving challenges. A former FT Group journalist and contributor to the Investors Chronicle Magazine, she is author of The Frugal Life: How to spend less and live more (2009) and Bedroom DJ: A Beginner’s Guide (2003). In October 2009 she was crowned Green Voice of the UK by the Energy Saving Trust. In the voluntary role she investigates and represents the man on the street’s views on green issues.In her spare time she writes crime fiction. Victim Support, an Inspector Sam Cree mystery set in Essex, is her first novel.view less