Barber's recollections of her time as a celebrity interviewer follow the success of An Education, her memoir of her early life. It should be a delight, dripping with gems about her encounters with everyone from Rudolf Nureyev to Lady Gaga * Sunday Times *
Packed full of incredible stories * Glamour *
The book of the career of the ferocious interviewer: what happens, she says, when a nosy child grows up to find her perfect job -- Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday *
Praise for Lynn Barber: 'Barber's elegant prose radiates love -- Jane Shilling * Daily Telegraph *
Lots of fun ... very moving * Evening Standard *
Funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting * Independent *
Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout * Zoe Heller *
The queen bee of the celebrity interview * Daily Mail *
For a guide [to journalism], there could be no better place to start than with Lynn Barber's second volume of autobiography, A Curious Career -- Olivia Cole * GQ *
Funny, thoughtful and beautifully written * Glamour *
Barber's back with a candid and extremely entertaining account of her early career as a celebrity interviewer that's packed with anecdotes illuminating both her own and her interviewees' lives ... I read this in a sitting, unable to stop smiling * Women & Home *
A riot of a read - funny, irreverent, artlessly frank -- Decca Aitkenhead * Guardian *
Barber turned the interview into an art form ... Like all the best conjurors, she relies on speed, practice, psychological insight, a powerful imagination and phenomenally acute observation. For nearly half a century she has held up a mirror in which her contemporaries see themselves reflected with a precision and panache most novelists would envy - and most biographers too -- Hilary Spurling * Guardian *
A terrific read ... Lynn Barber can take an over-interviewed, not-terribly-interesting celebrity and write 5,000 words about them that are so clever, bold and funny you want to read to the very end * Financial Times *
For fans of Lynn Barber, A Curious Career will delight and entertain. For anyone contemplating a career in celebrity journalist, it's absolutely indispensible ***** * Mail on Sunday *
Barber brilliantly nails the ghastly black-comedy irrationality of grief and the quietly heroic business of keeping-on keeping-in while everything simultaneously stops making sense ... Barber's wince-making eloquence on the pain of fresh widowhood lingered long after I finished A Curious Career. And then at the end I felt terribly disappointed; even having read it as slowly as I dared, at 211 pages it was all over far too quickly ... both on the page and in real life, Lynn Barber invariably leaves you wanting more * Sunday Times *
Incredibly satisfying and enjoyable: witty, mischievous, insightful, and, one occasion, elegiac ... A veritable masterclass in how it's done * Rachel Cooke, Observer *
She cuts, sparkles, is sometimes generous, never daunted, always full of verve ... Readers will love this pacy, absorbing book * Independent *
A hugely enjoyable read - the gold standard of professional prying * Evening Standard *
