A Diary of the Lady: My First Year as Editor

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...