Running From Office: 'Wonderfully engaging, honest and witty' - Rory Stewart -THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

'A wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life' - Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'Wryly self-deprecating, but also informative and illuminating' - Matt CooperAs Ireland's Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy took on one of the toughest briefs in government, one that continues to be a challenge today.Looking back at his life in the build-up to parliamentary office and at his time in the cabinet, Eoghan brings a self-lacerating and deeply personal view of the life of a modern politician trying - and often failing - to make the positive change he hoped to deliver.Brutal and sometimes harrowing, Eoghan's tale is also surprisingly funny, though the humour is only ever at the author's expense.If, in the end, all political careers end in failure, why didn't anyone tell the author that?There are no heroes or villains here, just a person facing their own limitations as they navigate the unfamiliar world of c