The Kindness of Strangers - Kate Adie > Reviews

Advantages: It is quite interesting to read about the places she has been to
Disadvantages: Can be a bit long winded in places, and is just about her career

...bargain. ~~~Synopsis~~~ Kate Adie is one of the world's more well known female reporters for the BBC and has been in some of the most dangerous places. She has reported from Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Northern Ireland and China, just to name a few. My title was inspired by a cartoon featured in the book, of two soldiers waiting to go into battle in Iraq, with one saying "We can't start yet ... Kate Adie isn't here..." To me this is quite poignant, ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun, mostly, and not as long as it looks
Disadvantages: Purely her career path, and nothing personal

When the book reviewing gods ~ okay, a bloke and a lass in an office ~ deigned that their servant theediscerning should have to condense 420pp of autobiography into 150 words, he was a little daunted. He was also quizzical about the subject of the said autobiog ~ Kate Adie. Yes he had grown up with her in the battlefield on the telly of a 6 o'clock news when he was younger, and presumed he admired her for doing so in a decent way, but he would have ... Read review