A review by elerireads
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir from Within by Rory Stewart

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Engaging and not shying away from complexity, whilst still written in simple and easy to read language. Personally I didn't think there was anything groundbreaking in the content - whilst a lot of the things he was talking about were dreadful, unfortunately none of them was particularly surprising to me. What it did well though was bringing together a lot of the problems and absurdities of different facets of British politics and illustrating them through one person's experience. Made more compelling by the emotional journey from naïve optimism through shock, disbelief and disillusionment to despair after exhausting every possible avenue and being thwarted at every turn.