Coming Up Trumps also reviewed in The Times

‘The 91-year-old Tory peeress is an astonishing character. She has galloped her way, with great humour, through half-a-dozen different lives. She had a good war at Bletchley Park (despite picking up a 15ft-long tapeworm); was sacked as an assistant at Peter Jones; worked on Madison Avenue during the Mad Men era; swam at Cliveden in the Sixties with Stephen Ward; was a headmaster’s wife before becoming a Tory minister; and has had a very late Indian summer, as a V-sign flicking member of the House of Lords and star turn onHave I Got News for You. Her memoir is a riot of anecdotes.’

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