Emily Maitlis

Not a memoir, not a biography, but a series of bite-sized vignettes about the life of a successful newscaster and interviewer. One who prepares carefully, but flies by the seat of her pants. One who researches, but seizes the moment. One who knows what she wants from an interview, but who will allow happenstance to take control. This is a real insight, wittily written, into the high-octane life of a political journalist. It's fairly exhausting reading, so what it's like to be part of her family, I can't imagine- we learn only a certain amount from reading between the lines of this book.

An interesting, well and amusingly written book. Recommended to those of us who keep up with current affairs!… (meer)