Talking shop with the queen of the high street
Memoir: Shop Girl: A Memoir. By Mary Portas. Doubleday, €20. Reviewed by Sara Keating
‘Even as a six-year-old”, Mary Portas understood that “there is a world enclosed in the four tiny letters of the word ‘shop’.” Her father was a salesman, delivering wholesale produce to grocers across London, and the young Mary loved nothing more than helping him on his rounds, gazing at “the shelves ...