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Kate Ehrman

Kate Ehrman is a writer and researcher who formerly worked on the editorial staff of The Spectator. She assisted Lord Charles Moore in the research and preparation of all three volumes of his acclaimed authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher. She also writes book reviews for The Oldie and works with Garsington Opera.

ABOUT THE BOOK

'The Fall of Margaret Thatcher: A Whodunnit'

How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs?

Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the Fall of the Berlin Wall which she had fought for and the rise of the modern EU which she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination.

Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling st