About Kara Gammell
Kara Gammell is an award-winning financial journalist with nearly 20 years’ experience writing for national newspapers and magazines such as The Metro, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, The Observer, Marie Claire, The Sun, Cosmopolitan and The Radio Times.
Kara has been a columnist at the Metro since 2017, sharing money savings hacks each week in The Bargain Hunter.
Kara has also regularly commentated on consumer issues on television and radio stations such as Rip Off Britain, ITV News, Talk Radio, BBC You & Yours, BBC Moneybox, BBC Wake Up to Money and Times Radio.
Kara is the founder of a money saving blog called Your Best Friend's Guide to Cash, which promises to help you get more bang for your buck, no matter what your budget.
Her first book, Your Best Friend’s Guide to Cash: Eight Things Every Woman Needs to Know About Money, was published by Harriman House in 2014.
Her second book, The Bargain Hunter: Easy hacks and tips to save money every day, will be published by Headline Publishing in 2024.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Kara lives in West Sussex with her daughter and two rescue dogs.
