Mo Mowlam : The Biography : [first edition]

Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has become one of Britain's most popular politicians; a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more importantly, the public at large. This biography, explores her life - how, as the child of alcoholic parents, she was the first in the family to go to university; her studies in the USA; her early career as a politics lecturer who was also a woman with a mission to do something; her sexual liberation in the 1970s; her Labour politics in the North East, Westminster and of course Ulster; and her dramatic success in beating a brain tumour.