Part Of The Pattern: Memoirs of a Wife at Westminster - Softcover

Healey, Edna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753194155 ISBN 13: 9780753194157

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, 2008

Synopsis

Edna Healey has been married to Denis Healey for more than fifty years and has seen parliamentary life, both in power and opposition from the inside. An accomplished historian and film-maker - Mrs Livingstone, I Presume won a best documentary award - Edna forged her own career as a writer and lecturer while her husband rose steadily to become Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer in successive Wilson governments. Edna travelled the globe with him and then moved their family to No. 11 Downing Street during his Chancellorship. Edna Healey has met many of the world's leaders from Chou En Lai to President Clinton and writes about them with great insight and candour. She retains strong links with her birthplace in the Forest of Dean and the chapters on her early life and its lasting influence make moving reading.

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Review

'charming, not self-serving at all, and will be of service to the future historians of the 20th century' -- SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'a fond and entertaining look at a rich life and a happy marriage' -- THE HERALD 'filled with good stories' -- SATURDAY TELEGRAPH 'a remarkable book...she evokes her beloved Forest of Dean in enchanting detail' -- SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'Edna Healey's lovely, wry autobiography' -- Maureen Lipman reviewing the Radio 4 reading 'An evocative account' -- THE SPECTATOR

About the Author

Edna Healey was born in the Forest of Dean and read English at Oxford. She has written and presented two television documentaries, is the author of five books and lectures extensively on Charles and Emma Darwin.

Edition details

• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753194155
• ISBN 13: 9780753194157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448