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Book review: 8½ Stone by Liz Jones

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Friday 10th April 2020

I’ve been an admirer of Liz Jones’s column in the Mail on Sunday’s You magazine for years. She’s outspoken and controversial – and SO readable. As I wrote in my blog back in 2011: “I turn to her page before anything else. I occasionally get fed up with accounts of her huge menagerie of animals but even so, she writes so well and with such disarming frankness that her diary ...keep reading

Book review: The Widow by Fiona Barton

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Monday 4th January 2016

If The Girl on the Train was last year’s stand-out title then The Widow could well be this year’s mega-success. A taut psychological thriller, it’s written by journalist Fiona Barton. A former senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph and chief reporter at The Mail on Sunday, she garnered multiple scoops and was hugely admired by her peers (me included). For the last few years, ...keep reading

The calm after the storm

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Sunday 16th February 2014

What a week that was. I don’t know if it’s anything to do with us but since we moved to the Dorset seaside there’s been one storm after another. But they all paled into insignificance compared to Friday night’s tempest. Sitting in my first floor office I felt as though I was in a lighthouse. The wind and rain hammered furiously against the windows and the gale was so deafening ...keep reading