Memoirs of an Unfit Mother

Memoirs of an Unfit Mother

by Anne Robinson (Author)

Synopsis

Anne Robinson's mother was a cross between Robert Maxwell and Mother Teresa. When she became a young reporter in Fleet Street, her mother, a wealthy market trader, bought her a mink coat and told her to have a facial once a month. But Robinson's early success almost ended in her destruction. A doomed marriage was followed by a secret custody battle for her two-year-old daughter, Emma. "Is it true," her husband's barrister demanded in court, "you once said you'd rather cover the Vietnam War than vacuum the sitting room?" This is a shocking, funny poignant, honest account of three generations of women - Anne's formidable mother; Anne; and her daughter Emma - plus Anne's downfall, including the shame of the years after the custody battle, her alcoholism and the triumph of returning to take a second go at life and making it work.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 397
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 13 Jun 2002

ISBN 10: 0751532681
ISBN 13: 9780751532685
Prizes: Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards (Biography & Autobiography) 2002.

Media Reviews
A cracking, unsentimental good read..love her or loathe her, Robinson has produced a book that revolutionises the celebrity autobiography * THE OBSERVER *
Devastating, original, self-lacerating, glittering with anger and thwarted maternal love...the book, like Robinson herself, is a combustable mixture of ferocity and vulnerability * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Robinson is no heroine- at least of all in her own eyes...but she is admirable. * THE SPECTATOR *
It's a brilliant read, and a lesson to would-be-showbiz blog writers. * DAILY MAIL *
Author Bio

Famous newspaper columnist. The first woman to regularly edit a national newspaper.
Watchdog more than doubled its audience after Anne Robinson joined it, getting sit-com ratings.
The Weakest Link attracted the largest number of daytime viewers in the history of television.