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Author:
Barbara Amiel
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
October 13, 2020
Barbara Amiel's memoir traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society.
What The Reviewers Say
Barbara Amiel is vulgar, greedy, ruthless, cruel, and thrillingly unself-aware, but after devouring every line of her frighteningly, hilariously, gob-smackingly honest book, I’ve got to admit, I like her.
... throughout this book she remains very much Barbara the undermothered Jewish girl from Hendon, a wartime kitten who, with no little melodrama and self-pity, has survived by purring and biting and writing.
... extraordinary.
Ms. Amiel leaves no score unsettled in this waspish, often scandalous, gossipy, vengeful, intimate chronicle of her tumultuous life (there’s even a 'friends and enemies' list at the end). It’s also disarmingly frank, funny and very well written.
