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Críticas

"[McAfee] writes with poise and polish, using her reportorial eye to create a fictional world that feels like a fun-house mirror of journalism from the late '90s...that could not be more timely. . . . A blackly comic, Waugh-esque portrait of a newspaper." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A dark, sparkly gem of a book: smart, knowing, funny, tragic: Miss Havisham meets Sex and the City. I don't know how Annalena McAfee pulled off such a balancing act, but I very much hope she goes on writing novels of this quality. A stunner." --Christopher Buckley

"An acid satire of London newspaperdom . . . . Spiky, vivid, and almost pathologically clever." --Entertainment Weekly

"McAfee skewers the Fourth Estate with an insider's insight, cutting wit and razor-sharp writing." --The New York Times Book Review

"Funny, fast-paced. . . . As the drama ramps up into a race to the presses, the decadence and cynicism of a sunset industry is revealed." --The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"A witty and entertaining debut about two very different worlds of journalism." --The Guardian (London)

"Richly comic and entertaining." --Tatler

"A wonderfully entertaining comedy of manners about the dying days of Fleet Street and the cult of celebrity . . . A clever, literary romp with flashes of Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding . . . A darkly, deliciously witty read." --The Independent on Sunday

"Masterly. . . A striking and accomplished novel." --London Evening Standard

"Brilliant . . . It grips from the first with verbal polish and razor-sharp satire." --Mail on Sunday

"Wily, insightful and engaging . . . McAfee has an excellent eye for detail and a wry comic touch . . . The Spoiler has a cracking plot, alive with twists and turns and meaning." --The Times (London)

"Extremely funny and sharply observed." --The Independent (London)

"Marvelously entertaining . . . McAfee's novel is irresistible." --Glasgow Herald

Reseña del editor

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.