- Published: 1 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780141983868
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $24.99
A Woman's Work
- Published: 1 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780141983868
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $24.99
A Woman's Work is a fantastic and inspiring read which I would recommend to anyone interested in overcoming prejudice and promoting fairness. Over her 35 year career in Parliament no-one has fought harder or more effectively for gender equality than Harriet Harman. She is an outstanding role model
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons
A personal memoir but also the story of women in politics and public life. Since Harriet entered parliament in 1982 pregnant with her first child she has seen the number of women MPs increase to more than 200. Many of us are there because of her
Rachel Reeves, 'Books of the Year', New Statesman
Compelling ... She has guts to spare and is interesting on the difficulties of a work-life balance in parliament ... Her own judgments on her performance are commendably unsparing ... An important story ... Role model? You bet
Tim Shipman, Political Editor, Sunday Times
A painfully honest memoir ... where lesser politicians would have slunk from public gaze, Harman reacted by getting tougher
Mary Riddell, Sunday Telegraph
Countless blows have tempered Harman into something fearless and indestructible. Hell, why shouldn't this be her prime?
Janice Turner, The Times
If I had a teenage daughter, especially one who didn't see the point of politics, this is the book I'd buy her. Chatty, accessible and occasionally eye-opening, it's a history of the things conventional political memoirs miss out ... a lively account of the one subject most political memoir writers know next to nothing about: how it felt to be a woman working in one of the least forgiving careers around
Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian
Fantastic - I can't recommend it highly enough
Open Labour