In this entertaining autobiography we enter the posh world of Harvey Nichols. In the 1980s and 1990s, during the department store’s heyday, Mary Portas was in charge of window displays. It was she who landed ‘Harvey Nicks’ its defining role in Absolutely Fabulous, the 1990s sitcom satirising fashion types.

AbFab was of course the hugest of hits, though Eddie and Patsy’s world paled in comparison to the real thing. I had a job on a glossy mag in the 1990s and reality was far crazier than anything on screen. I was the editor-in-chief’s deputy and she had a fearsome reputation. Working for her was like being one of the six wives of Henry VIII: you knew your number would be up sooner or later, but hoped the fun and glamour would make it all worthwhile.

The travel editor would sit at her computer saying, ‘Darlings! Only three more weeks until fun fur!’ She was passionately fond of her dogs (pugs, as I recall) and when one of them fell ill, the entire office had to write it a get well card as it reclined in