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MEMOIRS by Barbara Amiel (Constable £25) ‘Losing status, money, reputation and security is a shock when it happens all within a few days,’ writes Barbara Amiel in her fabulously gutsy and revealing memoir. She takes us from her world of glittering wealth to the darkness of near-penury, when her husband, media tycoon Conrad Black, was jailed for fraud. Loathe her for her self-pampering high-spending, or pity her for her plummeting descent, you’ll be swept along by the eye-popping details. One day, Ghislaine Maxwell said: ‘I’ll bet I’m in charge of more bathrooms and lavatories than you.’ They started totting them up including those on planes and choppers. Ghislaine won. ‘The Palm Beach version of Monopoly, I suppose.’ ....