The Independent - London, June 25th, 1995
2 Margaret Thatcher, the fastest book-signer in the business, is back with volume two of her memoirs: The Path To Power (HarperCollins pounds 25). This charts her story from humble birth in Grantham in 1925 to Oxford, marriage and politics. Thatcher makes strenuous efforts to appear nice and ordinary, but just as in her political life, this cosiness nearly always comes across as patronising. "Someone was always nearby to cuddle or pacify me with a sweet," she coos. God! and she didn't snap their hand off? On an early trip to London Zoo she "recoiled from the reptiles - an early portent of my r...
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