Baroness trumpington autobiography vs biography

Jean Trumpington's zest for life leaps off every page of her brisk, page-turning autobiography[WENN]

In a recent interview, Baroness Trumpington said of her memoir: “I didn’t write the damn book and I haven’t read it either.”

Well, maybe she should, because Coming Up Trumps an absolute riot, a brisk trot through the life of a feisty, fun-loving aristocrat who knew anyone who was anyone in the last century.

A woman who loved drinking, smoking and gambling, her zest for life leaps off the page and every photograph shows her roaring with laughter but there is also a compassionate heart and a campaigning vigour beneath the exuberance and joie de vivre.

Trumpington was born Jean Campbell-Harris in to aristocratic parents who lost their money in Wall Street crash.

The Campbell-Harrises’ idea of poverty was moving from a house near Hyde Park to a 16th century pile in Kent with its own servants’ wing plus a