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by Anne Robinson (Author) "Fifteen years after a mother has left the earth there is a grown-up daughter standing in a shop, saying petulantly to a saleswoman, 'I know..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere (2 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751536245
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751536249
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 92,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A cracking, unsentimental good read..love her or loathe her, Robinson has produced a book that revolutionises the celebrity autobiography' THE OBSERVER 'Devastating, original, self-lacerating, glittering with anger and thwarted maternal love...the book, like Robinson herself, is a combustable mixture of ferocity and vulnerability' DAILY TELEGRAPH


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Anne Robinson's mother was a cross between Robert Maxwell and Mother Teresa. When Anne became a young reporter in Fleet Street, her mother, a wealthy market trader, bought her a mink coat and told her to have a facial once a month. But Anne Robinson's early success almost ended in her destruction. A doomed marriage was followed by a secret custody battle for her two- year-old daughter, Emma. 'Is it true?' her husband's barrister demanded in court, 'you once said you'd rather cover the Vietnam War than vacuum the sitting room?' A shocking, funny, poignant and honest account of three generations of women: Anne's formidable mother, Anne and her daughter Emma. Memoirs of an Unfit Mother tells of Anne's downfall, the shame of the years after the custody battle and her subsequent alcoholism. And the triumph of returning to take a second go at life. And making it work.
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Fifteen years after a mother has left the earth there is a grown-up daughter standing in a shop, saying petulantly to a saleswoman, 'I know it looks nice - but I don't wear purple.' Read the first page
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not at all what I expected, 5 Oct 2002
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I would recommend you buy this book even if you aren’t a great Anne Robinson fan. I can’t say I particularly like the woman but found this book fascinating. Anne Robinson’s life story is not at all what I expected, knowing only the television persona. The book is surprisingly forthright. In particularly the “warts and all” description of her decent into alcoholism show that she isn’t frightened to reveal details about her life which you could imagine most authors would prefer to skim over. Once you read this book you will want to give it to your friends to read too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wow - totally unexpected, 20 Feb 2006
By F. Green "avid reader" (netherlands) - See all my reviews
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I am not a fan of Anne Robinson but heard through the grapevine that she had an interesting existence so bought this book.
I have to say I was shocked at the trauma she has been through. The book is very well written, highly descriptive where necessary but also getting straight to the point in the "juicier" areas of her life. I'd never have guessed she was an alcoholic. what an insight into an alcoholics mind and what a comeback for a woman who lost all. Fabulous reading. You won't be able to put it down.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An absorbing read, 26 Oct 2007
By C. O'Brien (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
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Anne Robinson is probably best known as the resident dominatrix of television game show The Weakest Link. Her long, difficult and relatively distinguished career as a journalist takes second place to an assumed persona that hides a history of failed relationships, personal pain and loss - and an addiction to alcohol that almost killed her.

Growing up a good Catholic girl with a charismatic but domineering mother, Robinson's early career success as a reporter left her unprepared for any kind of failure. A desperately unsuccessful first marriage left her ripe for conversion to hopeless drunk and lost her custody of her two-year-old daughter, Emma. In these days before feminism, the courts seem more concerned about Robinson's career ambition than about her drinking, her solicitor tries to bed her and Emma's care is eventually entrusted to her equally ambitious journalist father.

The most affecting part of the book concerns her struggle to drag herself out of addiction, though there is much more to the book than an inspirational real-life tale. Its scope stretches across three generations, from the life of her outrageous powerhouse of a mother, through Robinson's own chequered history, to the blossoming movie industry career of grown-up Emma. It also has much to say on the women's issues that touched upon this lifelong journalist's career - from the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher to the unhappy marriage and eventual death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Stylistically, the book reads like a newspaper column. Tightly written - sometimes too tightly - its slick journalese is an odd vehicle for confessions of pain and vulnerability and can make the reader feel manipulated into a preordained response. Nevertheless, it's both an absorbing read and an intriguing slice of twentieth century social history.
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