Spies and Stars

The great joy of Bingham's prose is its youthful insouciance. She writes like a teenager, but an exceptionally observant one -- Lynn Barber * Spectator * Enormous fun ... Dazzling * Sunday Express * Wickedly funny * Country Life * Flamboyance is the keynote... I loved it * Daily Mail, Book of the Week * She has a keen eye ... Bingham concentrates on amusing asides and scraps of dialogue, and the jokes carry the story blithely along ... Its self-deprecatory portrait of a girl adrift is engaging, and it captures well the chance encounters that are often part of growing up -- Lindsay Duguid * Times Literary Supplement * Praise for MI5 and Me: 'Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh. Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times * The sort of light, frothy book that makes your laugh out loud on public transport * Daily Mail, Books of the Summer 2018 * Hilarious and candid ... Filled with period detail, Bingham's memoir is entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer * A fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 * A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement * A stone-cold comic classic ... Joyfully silly * Tatler * Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian * Much fun it is ... Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator * One funny story follows another ... You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *