Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting to the Top

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Karren Brady. Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting to the Top

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For Sophia and Paolo.

Remember work turns dreams into reality.

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It was an unhappy place, a bit like something out of Dickens. There was a long drive up to the school with two cattle grids and you knew when you’d gone over the second that you were past the point of no return; it was just awful. My closest friend, my-all-night-in-Soho companion, who went there too, says that her lasting memory of the school is that she was always unhappy and hungry, which just about sums it up.

It was very religious, with mass twice a day. Everyone was bored and restless, and it wasn’t as though you were even getting a really good education, because the teaching was variable. And you had no life experiences, because you never met anybody. It was very isolating and I was a bit of a loner. I didn’t have many friends because I didn’t want many friends. There were a lot of geeky, closeted girls who’d never seen anything, never been anywhere, never done anything, for whom going into Ware town centre nearby was the most amazing thing you could imagine. I just found the things they were into mind-numbingly boring. They thought it was great to stay up all night reading Jackie magazine, or watch Wimbledon all day.

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