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 thing'' Sunday Times''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, The Lady''A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described'' Guardian''HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about The Lady for reasons other than nannies'' Piers MorganRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin.