The Long and Winding Road: A Memoir. Alan Johnson (First Edition Paperback) 2017

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: A MEMOIR. Alan Johnson.

From the condemned slums of Southam Street in west london to the corridors of power in westminster, Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today's Britain. This third volume tells of Alan's early political skirmishes as a trade union leader, where his negotiating skills and charismatic style soon came to the notice of tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party. As a result, Alan was chose to stand in the constuency of Hull West and Hessle and enters Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997

But this is no self-aggrandizing memoir of westminster polticking and skullduggery. Supporting his constituents - the Hull trawlermen and their families - as they seek justice comes more naturally to Alan than do the Byzantine complexities of Parliamentary procedure. But of course he succeeds nonetheless, and rises through the ministerial ranks to the office of Home Secretary in 2009.

In THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD, Alan's characteristic honesty and authenticity shine through every word. His book takes you into a world which is at once familiar and strange: his is politics as you've never see it before....

FIRST EDITIONN paperback published in 2017 by Corgi Books (in AS-NEW and UNREAD condition)