The Independent's parliamentary sketch writer and columnist since 2000, Simon Carr was described by Tony Blair as 'the most vicious sketch writer working in Britain today'. 'Poison,' said Charles Clarke. In the 1980s he helped launch the Independent, and was a speech writer for the prime minister of New Zealand from 1992 to 1994. His working principle is 'Indignation keeps us young.'
Compulsive * Guardian * It's about living life to the full. It's full of everyday observations that are about real life, not just reel life. -- Clive Owen * Daily Mail * Both men and women need his confident, politically incorrect but thoroughly realistic assertions. * Independent * Carr's brilliantly written account of life as a single parent should become a required manual on parenting * Sunday Times * Achingly funny and almost unbearably moving * Daily Mail *