The Spoiler

By Annalena McAfee

Book Overview

A deft and impressive debut novel--a dark hyper-comedy--set in London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave.

Honor Tait, a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day The Newsroom Dietrich because of her luminescent beauty) is now in her eighties and looking back at a career that saw her on the front lines and in the foxholes of every major theater of war in the twentieth century. Tamara Sim, a young feature writer who compiles lists (what's in/what's out, ten best/ten worst) for a newspaper gossip magazine, is sent to interview the venerated doyenne of British journalists for a well-respected publication. What starts out as a tango of wills and egos turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse as secrets are revealed, lies unearthed, and one paper plays off the other in a ruthless, desperate grab for sensation and circulation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345803884
• ISBN13: 9780345803887
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"