''A clear-eyed and compelling account of a life, told with honesty.'' - Luke Jennings
''A book brimming with surprises and insight.'' - Nicholas Coleridge
''Calmly, bravely written... deployed with generosity and modesty.'' - Adam Nicholson
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Edward Stourton was born into a life of privilege.
The son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, Ed was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, at the time when, it was latter revealed, the school and monastery were the setting for serial abuse cases. He then went up to Cambridge, where his life as an undergraduate gave him access to a network of future ministers, judges and newspaper editors. As a young journalist, he reported first from party conferences and picket lines and then from war zones, witnessing the events making international headlines, from Haiti to Hong Kong, b
