“In Hold the Front Page! Clare Hastings has compiled a warm-hearted tribute to her mother , the journalist and gardener Anne Scott-James. Anne, who I knew well as a country neighbour, was a beautiful and formidable woman, a pioneer in the then male dominated world of Fleet Street, whose newspaper columns, reprinted here, are still relevant and topical today. Interspersed with examples of her journalism, Clare gives us a touching memoir of a remarkable woman, like herself ‘strong on common sense and short on whingeing’.”