Confessions av Edward Stourton

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<p><b>''Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir</b>.'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>''If you value the perspective and judgment of one who has covered, often from the frontline, the major events of the past four decades, then snap up a copy.'' </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br><b>''A book brimming with surprises and insight.'' - Nicholas Coleridge </b><br><br><b>-------------------------------------------------------------------</b><br><br><b>Edward Stourton was born into a life of privilege.</b><br><br>The son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, Ed was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, at the time when, it was latter revealed, the school and monastery were the setting for serial abuse cases. He then went up to Cambridge, where his life as an undergraduate gave him access to a network of future ministers, judges and newspaper editors. As a young journalist, he reported first from