A Diary of The Lady

<p><b>Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving <i>The Lady</i>, Britain''s oldest women''s weekly, in her hilarious diary, <i>A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor</i>.</b><br><br><i>''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.''</i><br><br>Appointed editor of <i>The Lady</i> - 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?<br><br>Will Rachel save <i>The Lady</i> - or sink it?<br><br>''Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing'' <i>Sunday Times<br></i><br>''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, <i>The Lady<br></i><br>''A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about <i>The Lady </i>for reasons other than nannies'' Piers Morgan<br><br>Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. <i>The Mummy Diaries</i>, <i>Notting</i> <i>Hell, Shire Hell</i> and <i>A Diary of The Lady </i>are all available now from Penguin.</p>