Part of the Pattern: Memoirs of a Wife at Westminster - Hardcover

Healey, Edna

9780747275800: Part of the Pattern: Memoirs of a Wife at Westminster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747275807 ISBN 13: 9780747275800

Publisher: Headline Review, 2006

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)

Book Description:

The autobiography of the wife of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer which casts fresh light on the workings of government

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