Teenage Helen and her friend Colette entertain hopes of escaping their lives in Liverpool through going to college. But Helen's family and their desire to keep her with them inhibit her, and when she meets a handsome American serviceman, she is forced to confront some awkward realities.

She's Leaving Home

Literature & Fiction

EDWINA CURRIE

Contemporary

London: Little, Brown

The Ambassador

Book Club Associates

Chasing Men

WARNER BOOKS

In the late 1980s, when she began keeping a diary, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics - after Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, she was often spoken of as a potential prime minister. Her outspokenness and her lively, media-friendly personality won her a much higher profile than her status as a junior minister would otherwise have commanded. When she was forced to resign from the Government after warning of the danger signs of salmonella infection in eggs, she was already a national figure. The appearance of these diaries is a significant publishing event. Like Alan Clark's diaries, they provide an insight into politics at the top, by a writer with an observant eye and a sharp sense of humour. Edwina Currie's honesty, frankness and courage make these unexpurgated diaries an irresistible read. Their revelation of her four-year affair with former Prime Minister John Major has already been a media sensation.

Diaries 1987-1992

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Little. Brown and Company

A first novel by one of Britain's female politicians set at the heart of Westminster politics.

A Parliamentary Affair (SIGNED COPY)

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

A woman's place

A Woman's Place

Coronet Books

In the late 1980s, when she began keeping a diary, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics - after Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, she was often spoken of as a potential prime minister. Her outspokenness and her lively, media-friendly personality won her a much higher profile than her status as a junior minister would otherwise have commanded. When she was forced to resign from the Government after warning of the danger signs of salmonella infection in eggs, she was already a national figure. These diaries provide an insight into politics at the top, by a writer with an observant eye and a sharp sense of humour, and sparked a media furore on their initial publication due to the author's revelation of her affair with John Major.

Little Brown P/B

<p>Hetty believed marriage was for life before returning home one day to find her husband in bed with another woman. With her cosy world imploded, nothing remains. Driven beyond endurance, she divorces, facing the future with trepidation, as part of the swelling ranks of the single middle-aged.</p>

ISIS Publishing

Love her or hate her Edwina Currie falls comfortably into that category of celebrity you simply cannot ignore. The first edition of her diaries explosively revealed her affair with former Prime Minister John Major. This second volume, which begins in 1992 with her refusal to serve in Major's Cabinet, is no less revelatory about her colleagues, encounters with others in the public eye, and, of course, her extraordinary love life.  It covers her life in Parliament up to the election of Blair's Labour government, but more importantly sees its subject's emergence as a mainstay in the public imagination, first as a bestselling author, then as a commentator, broadcaster, presenter and performer  -  most recently on the BBC's flagship entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing.  Shot through with her trademark effervescence and sense of fun, Edwina Currie Diaries: Volume II documents one of the biggest characters in British public life at her saucy, scathing best.  'Frank and funny, you can't put her down' Time Out  'Few women can lay claim to the word "magnificent", but Currie is now surely one of them' Daily Telegraph

Edwina Currie Diaries

Leaders & Notable People

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