Book description
Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady,
Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary
of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.
'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty,
disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies
and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.'
Appointed editor of The Lady - the oldest women's weekly in
the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a
start, how do you become an editor when you've never, well, edited?
How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths,
during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation
in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the
last fifteen years at home in sweatpants?
Will Rachel save The Lady - or sink it?
'Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is
everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying
the wrong thing' Sunday Times
'She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her
away from a penis' Mrs Julia Budworth, co-owner, The Lady
'A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described' Guardian
'HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about The
Lady for reasons other than nannies' Piers Morgan
Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels
and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting
Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all
available now from Penguin.
Rachel Johnson is married to Ivo Dawnay, has three children, and
lives in London and Somerset. Her previous books include
The Mummy Diaries,
the international bestseller
Notting Hell
and
Shire Hell
.
