Near fine condition.Sidgwick & Jackson,1989.First UK edition-first printing.The book is Signed by the Author on the first blank page of the book Best Wishes,Edwina Currie.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases,scratches & nicks on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.Nice and clean pages with a small nick and ink mark on the outer edges,two small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.291pp including Chronology,index.Price clipped.A collectable signed first edition. This is another paragraph Synopsis: This personal account covers the health of the British people between 1986 and 1988, politics, insights into the workings of the Whitehall machine and a look at the minds of mandarins and their ministers. Edwina Currie also reveals her thoughts on her period in office, during the challenges and crises on subjects from AIDS to breast cancer, from welfare to woolly hats, aiming to show what it was like to be a minister in the Thatcher government and how policy is really made. It will be of interest to anyone concerned about health - their own, that of their friends and family, and that of the nation - and to those who are intrigued by the phenomenon of Edwina Currie herself.