Hold the Front Page

The Wit and Wisdom of Anne Scott-James

By: Clare Hastings

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Hardcover | 5 March 2020

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In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a weekly column for the UK's Sunday Express newspaper. The Anne Scott-James Page set the bar for a new way of writing. She perfected the art of the short, sharp column--and many of the topics she covered are equally on trend today. The column was filled with her views on children, food, interiors, fashion, beauty, travel, and anything else that took her fancy. Political views might be squashed between a piece on eyebrow tweezing and an opinion on swimsuit lines. As Anne's daughter, Clare Hastings, writes, "I have often thought that with a couple of name changes, Anne's columns could be placed in a newspaper today and readers would find it hard to tell the difference"--except that few journalists now, few journalists ever, could match Anne's mixture of intelligence, wit and style--or her sheer funniness. She was a great believer in entertaining her reader. In Hold the Front Page, Scott-James's Sunday Express 1954-1968 columns are collected together with commentary from her daughter, writer Clare Hastings, to provide a fascinating insight into the public and private life of the first female star of London's Fleet Street.

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"Hold the Front Page!, compiled by her daughter Clare Hastings, is a selection of Scott-James's articles (many of them hilarious, all of them sprucely professional) interspersed with Hastings's affectionate but uncloying memoir. It conveys a completely vanished world."

-- AN Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *

"In Hold The Front Page Clare Hastings has compiled a warm hearted tribute to her mother the journalist and gardener Anne Scott-James. Anne, whom I knew well as a country neighbour was a beautiful and formidable woman, a pioneer in the then male-dominated world of Fleet Street, whose newspaper columns, reprinted here are still relevant and topical today. Interspersed with examples of her journalism, Clare gives us a touching memoir of her remarkable mother, like herself "strong on common sense and short on whingeing."

-- Richard Ingrams

"Clare Hastings' deadpan and funny reminiscences of her mother are what elevates this book above a pleasingly nostalgic read."

* Daily Mail *

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