Instantly recognisable wherever she goes, Winnie Ewing is one of the most influential Scotswomen of her generation. From Harold Wilson to Eamom de Valera and Robert Mugabe, Winnie Ewing has known and worked with most of the major political figures of the last quarter century. Her nickname, 'Madame Ecosse', testifies to the affection and respect in which she is held. In her frank, hard hitting but at times intimate autobiography she tells not just her story but also the story of a fast moving era during which her country and her life changed completely. From her childhood during the war years in Glasgow, her work as a distinguished solicitor, her sensational victory at Hamilton in 1967 - widely agreed to have been the most important by-election in Scottish political history - her time representing Moray and Nairn at Westminster, her unrivalled quarter century in the European Parliament through to her election at the age of seventy to the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years (which she had done so much to create) Winnie Ewing has experienced both triumph and tragedy and has got to know an astonishing cast of the famous and infamous as well as having travelled her own country and th