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Book Synopsis''A fascinating account... Campbell''s research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous'' Observer
When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent: she had a rich businessman husband, sent her children to the most expensive private schools and sat in Parliament for Finchley.
Yet almost overnight she reinvented herself. Journalists who set out to discover where she came from were amazed to find that she had grown up above a grocer''s shop in Grantham. Within weeks of her becoming Tory leader an entirely new image was in place, based around the now famous corner shop beside the Great North Road; the strict Methodist upbringing; and her father, who taught her the ''Victorian values'' which were the foundations of her subsequent career.
In the first volume of the
Trade Review
The best book yet written about Lady Thatcher * Daily Telegraph *
A winner. Whatever your views on the grocer's daughter, I defy you not to enjoy it * Daily Mail *
'A triumph' * Spectator *
'A superbly researched biography... unlike so many others is neither hagiography nor hatchet-job, and probably gets closer to the truth than any... magnificently told' * Sunday Express *
'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' * Observer *
