{"product_id":"9780141963846","title":"A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving \u003ci\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/i\u003e, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, \u003ci\u003eA Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppointed editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/i\u003e - 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Rachel save \u003ci\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/i\u003e - or sink it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about \u003ci\u003eThe Lady \u003c\/i\u003efor reasons other than nannies'  Piers Morgan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. \u003ci\u003eThe Mummy Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotting\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHell, Shire Hell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Diary of The Lady \u003c\/i\u003eare all available now from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108864114928,"sku":"9780141963846","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141963846_p0.jpg?v=1763655786","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141963846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}