Currie, Edwina
Entry updated 5 January 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) UK politician, broadcaster and author, a Conservative member of Parliament 1983-1997, serving as Junior Health Minister 1986-1988. Most of her fiction, including A Parliamentary Affair (1994), is nonfantastic, with the exception of The Ambassador (1999), a not-so-Near Future tale set in 2099 in which the European Community has vastly increased its size and sway, while the USA is dominated by a Religion-based conservatism where Genetic Engineering is threatened, and Cloning is banned. The titular US ambassador to London is at first impressed by the many medical advances, but a darker side inevitably emerges (see Paranoia). [JC]
Edwina Currie
born Liverpool, England: 13 October 1946
works (highly selected)
- A Parliamentary Affair (London: Little, Brown, 1994) [hb/Melvin Warren-Smith]
- The Ambassador (London: Little, Brown, 1999) [hb/Melvin Warren-Smith]
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