A deft, impressive debut novel--a dark hyper-comedy--published in Britain to great acclaim ("Wily, insightful, engaging" --"The Times"; "Brilliant . . . It grips from the first with verbal polish and razor-sharp satire" --"The""Mail on Sunday) "is set in London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave.
It is a novel about two women at different times in their careers--one a legendary war correspondent (called in her day "The Newsroom Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) now in her eighties, who, over the decades, as the golden...