Annie Bracken was born in Muncie, Indiana, and studied at the University of Michigan and the London School of Economics. She served on Capitol Hill as legislative assistant to Senator Richard Lugar, then in the White House as an assistant to President George H. W. Bush. After working in the US Embassy in the Hague, she moved to public relations and advertising in Manhattan. She now lives with her family in London.

“You definitely want her on your side.” - Katharine Graham, owner of the Washington Post “A breath of fresh air.” - Richard Helms, former director of the CIA“This book is a riot, bright and breezy, whose pages sparkle with unlikely insights into official Washington, with a first person flavour of what goes on behind the closed doors of power. Every line is worth the ticket; the fun is in the reading. It is on the tennis courts that she meets and sometimes is wooed by Washington’s high and mighty. Small as the book is, it offers us a spectacular range of celebrities, by whom the author is undaunted, offering not so much a memoir, as sketches of a life enthusiastically lived.” - John Carlin, author of Invictus “Not a page is turned without a smile” - Andrew Ovenstone

Annie Bracken was born in Muncie, Indiana, and studied at the University of Michigan and the London School of Economics. She served on Capitol Hill as legislative assistant to Senator Richard Lugar, then in the White House as an assistant to President George H. W. Bush. After working in the US Embassy in the Hague, she moved to public relations and advertising in Manhattan. She now lives with her family in London.

“You definitely want her on your side.” - Katharine Graham, owner of the Washington Post “A breath of fresh air.” - Richard Helms, former director of the CIA“This book is a riot, bright and breezy, whose pages sparkle with unlikely insights into official Washington, with a first person flavour of what goes on behind the closed doors of power. Every line is worth the ticket; the fun is in the reading. It is on the tennis courts that she meets and sometimes is wooed by Washington’s high and mighty. Small as the book is, it offers us a spectacular range of celebrities, by whom the author is undaunted, offering not so much a memoir, as sketches of a life enthusiastically lived.” - John Carlin, author of Invictus “Not a page is turned without a smile” - Andrew Ovenstone