What makes a great memoir? The answer is that it matters less what the life lived actually was, than that it should be described with the utmost honesty. Ordinarily that means it must be written by somebody who either does not expect the book to be published in their lifetime or else has no special desire to still leave the house. Barbara Amiel’s Friends and Enemies, the personal history of the British-Canadian journaist and wife of the one-time press baron Conrad Black, falls very clearly into the latter grouping.
Read the rest of Douglas Murray's review in Commentary.
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