Ultra-Sophisticated
Hilary Mantel
- Life Lines: Politics and Health 1986-1988 by Edwina Currie
Sidgwick, 291 pp, £13.95, November 1989, ISBN 0 283 99920 9 - My Turn by Nancy Reagan and William Novak
Weidenfeld, 384 pp, £15.95, October 1989, ISBN 0 297 79677 1 - Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis by Nigel Dempster
Weidenfeld, 180 pp, £12.95, October 1989, ISBN 0 297 79671 2
Edwina had her date with destiny on 10 September 1986. A TV crew were camped outside her house in her Derbyshire constituency, and were shining lights through the windows. Edwina waited for the phone to ring. When it did, it was a man’s voice, telling her to get along without delay to Downing Street. ‘And so, into my battered Maestro... ’ – a nice populist touch there. But as she drove towards her appointment with the Prime Minister, as she fumed and itched in the London traffic, a horrible thought struck her: what if it was all a practical joke?
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