The Inspirational New Book About the Art and Science of Growing Up from the ‘Past Imperfect’ Podcast Hosts
Rachel Sylvester is a political columnist at The Times. She started
writing about politics in 1996 and was a lobby correspondent on The
Daily Telegraph before becoming political editor of The Independent
on Sunday. She joined The Times in 2008. She is Chair of the Times
Education Commission
Alice Thomson is a columnist and interviewer at The Times. A former
Times trainee, she became a foreign correspondent, feature writer
and political reporter for the paper before moving to The Telegraph
as a columnist, restaurant reviewer and leader writer. She returned
to The Times in 2008. She is the author of The Singing Line.
PRAISE FOR WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS YOUNG ‘This is a superb
study of the way strength can emerge from childhood trauma –
brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping
revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew
– but never understood’
Emily Maitlis ‘A punchy portrait of how character is forged in
adversity. As an idiosyncratic, wide-ranging study, it works.
Sylvester and Thomson have succeeded in avoiding “pity porn”; their
book is provocative and even uplifting’
The Times PRAISE FOR THE PAST IMPERFECT PODCAST ‘I promise not to
praise Times podcasts unless I really like them. I’ve been
recommending Past Imperfect to friends so it would seem unfair of
me not to recommend it to readers. In Past Imperfect the paper’s
crack interviewing team of Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson talk
to politicians and celebrities about their pasts. Their theory is
that all successful people are driven to achieve by childhood
trauma. As a keen armchair psychologist I am fully behind this
premise … Excellent’
James Marriott, The Times
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