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Shirley Conran OBE (née Pearce; born 21 September 1932) is a British novelist and journalist.

Conran has written for Vanity Fair, women's editor of The Daily Mail and The Observer. Published in 1982, her book Lace spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, reaching as high as No. 6, and was adapted into a 1980s US miniseries.

Her book, Lace, was published by Simon & Schuster and is reported to be the original source for the marketing tag line, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"

Conran has been married to Sir Terence Conran; they are the parents of two sons: Sebastian Orby Conran and Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran, both designers. In 2009, she wrote that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. Conran has homes in France and London, and lived in Monaco for several years. She founded the educational non-profit Maths Action.