Gabrielle Seal Hinsliff (born 4 July 1971)^[1][2] is an English journalist and columnist for The Guardian.^[3]

Born in Chelmsford^[4] she is one of the daughters of the actor Geoff Hinsliff. She attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree in English.^[5]

After two years at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph from 1994 to 1996, Hinsliff joined the Daily Mail, where she was successively a news reporter and health reporter, before becoming a political reporter in 1997,^[5] and finally chief political correspondent the following year. She joined The Observer in March 2000, initially in the same post, following Andy McSmith, who had joined The Daily Telegraph.^[6] Hinsliff was the youngest political editor of a national newspaper when she was promoted in December 2004, this time succeeding Kamal Ahmed, who had been her immediate superior at The Observer since her original appointment.^[5][6][7]

Although Hinsliff loved the job, she resigned in late September 2009 "to get a life", to move "out of London to write, think, do some projects I never had time for" and "to spend more time with her husband and son".^[2][7]

Hinsliff's book Half a Wife (Chatto & Windus) was published in 2012. Eleanor Mills in The Sunday Times wrote that it is elevated "from the normal middle-class whinge" by "the rigorous analysis she brings to the wider forces that have shaped modern family life and how they might be re-sliced so that families can live differently". Hinsliff, Mills writes, "calls for a non-gender-aligned sharing out of domestic tasks".^[8]

Hinsliff spent a period at The Times until July 2014, before becoming a columnist on The Guardian the following September.^[9]

In July 2012, she began as editor-at-large of Grazia magazine contributing interviews and columns.^[10] Hinsliff contributes to BBC and Sky programmes.

Hinsliff is married to James Clark, a public relations professional.^[11]

• Half a Wife: The Working Family's Guide to Getting a Life Back (Vintage, 2013) ISBN 978-0099555742

• Gaby Hinsliff, her columns at The Guardian