What I Wish Id Known When I Was Young by Rachel Sylvester

What I Wish Id Known When I Was Young by Rachel Sylvester

A superb study brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew but never understood EMILY MAITLIS Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isnt always an indicator of whats to come.

PRAISE FOR WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS YOUNG

‘This is a superb study of the way strength can emerge from childhood trauma – brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew – but never understood’
Emily Maitlis

‘A punchy portrait of how character is forged in adversityAs an idiosyncratic, wide-ranging study, it works. Sylvester and Thomson have succeeded in avoiding “pity porn”; their book is provocative and even uplifting’
The Times

PRAISE FOR THE PAST IMPERFECT PODCAST

‘I promise not to praise Times podcasts unless I really like them. I’ve been recommending Past Imperfect to friends so it would seem unfair of me not to recommend it to readers. In Past Imperfect the paper’s crack interviewing team of Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson talk to politicians and celebrities about their pasts. Their theory is that all successful people are driven to achieve by childhood trauma. As a keen armchair psychologist I am fully behind this premise … Excellent’
James Marriott, The Times

Rachel Sylvester is a political columnist at The Times. She started writing about politics in 1996 and was a lobby correspondent on The Daily Telegraph before becoming political editor of The Independent on Sunday. She joined The Times in 2008. She is Chair of the Times Education Commission.

Alice Thomson is a columnist and interviewer at The Times. A former Times trainee, she became a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the paper before moving to The Telegraph as a columnist, restaurant reviewer and leader writer. She returned to The Times in 2008. She is the author of The Singing Line.

Rachel and Alice host the Past Imperfect podcast together.

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ISBN 13	9780008497460
ISBN 10	000849746X
Title	What I Wish Id Known When I Was Young
Author	Rachel Sylvester
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2022-05-12
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.