Présentation de l'éditeur
The witty and brilliant autobiography from legendary, beloved and groundbreaking journalist Katharine Whitehorn.'A book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter' DAILY TELEGRAPHQ: A mother's place?A: In the wrong.Much loved for her frankness and humour, Katharine Whitehorn was a legendary journalist who pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. SELECTIVE MEMORY, her autobiography, is about childhood, motherhood, marriage and of course her pioneering work on Fleet Street.Praise for Katharine Whitehorn:'Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning' JILLY COOPER'Wise, witty, mischievous' JAY RAYNER'A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful' RACHEL COOKE
Revue de presse
Katharine Whitehorn's long-awaited and beautifully achieved autobiography, the best present you could give, a book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter . . . What she writes is timelessly intelligent, agelessly elegant (
TELEGRAPH)
Humorous and bittersweet (
OBSERVER)
Dry, aphoristic, keenly intelligent (
TIMES)
There is a fair amount of cheerful cynicism here, but also a touching memoir of times and people past (
TIMES)
Katharine Whitehorn was a meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful (
Rachel Cooke)
Katharine Whitehorn was wise, witty, mischievous (
Jay Rayner)
Biographie de l'auteur
Katharine Whitehorn grew up in Mill Hill and studied at Cambridge. She has had distinguished career on Fleet Street; working for the Observer from 1960 to 1996 with stints at Picture Post and the Spectator among others. She is currently Saga magazine's resident agony aunt.
