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Ann Leslie is quite simply one of the most fearless, talented and witty journalists in Britain today.In the Sixties, she went on the trail of some fearsome Mexican drug traffickers while wearing 'white gloves, a white-and-yellow Horrocks frock (in those distant days, the epitome of the bourgeois Celia Johnson style), and carrying a white handbag'. But well over half the time, simply picking up the phone has results, and the defiant one says something like “Well, you want me to give up my lunch AND my drink! After graduating she began her career at the Manchester office of the Daily Express , where the news editor took an instant dislike to her—she was a southerner, educated and—worst of all—female. But the book never descends into the drizzle of old news – because it is underpinned by a blunt exploration of her psyche.

A marvellous memoir of great insight and wit from one of Britain's most formidable and accomplished journalists. In the course of a long and glorious career, Dame Ann has interviewed film stars, presidents, princes and celebrities of every shade.

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