Publisher's Synopsis
Edna Healey has been married to Denis Healey for 60 years and has seen parliamentary life both in power and opposition. An accomplished historian and film-maker, Edna forged her own career as a writer and broadcaster while her husband rose steadily through the Labour ranks to become Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Edna travelled the globe with her husband, meeting many of the world's leaders. She has known all the Labour Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair and writes about them with great insight and candour. She retains strong links with her birthplace in the Forest of Dean and the engagingly evocative chapters on her early life and its lasting influence make moving reading.
