HarperCollins, 336pp, £20
The biography of Britain's shortest-lasting prime minister, whose term of office was mocked by one tabloid as having been outlasted by a lettuce, does not offer much promise. But, and James Heale, diary editor of the , have ‘cleverly’ turned ‘a story of surprise victory into a well-researched tragedy of warnings ignored,’ wrote Tim Stanley in the . Truss ‘comes across as such a slight character that one wonders if there's a big market to read an entire book about her, but when Cole and Heale get stuck into her fight against Sunak, they offer a masterful, behind-thescenes perspective on theatre that affected us all.’
