What can we learn from Margaret Thatcher's final years in office and out?

Charles Mora will be here to talk about the third volume of his authorized biography,

Margaret Thatcher, herself alone.

Why would Mother ask a daughter to help orchestrate her own extramarital affair?

Adrian Broderer will tell us about her memoir, Wild Game, My Mother, Her Lover, and Me.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about

what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Bookerview Podcast from the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Joining us now from Sussex, England, Charles Mora, he is the author of a trilogy, a biography

in three parts of Margaret Thatcher.

The latest is herself alone.

Charles, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you Pamela.

Nice to hear you.

So you've now been through about 2700 pages of Margaret Thatcher.

And you're finally done.

Let's go back to the beginning.

You started off your first experience with Margaret Thatcher as a writer, was you were a staff

reporter for the Daily Telegraph, and then later a political columnist for the paper.

What was your first encounter with Thatcher?

Well, my actual first personal encounter was when I went to a dinner in the House of

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