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 & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & 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? & 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 & 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 & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."