Jill Dando was on the edge of happiness. The "golden girl" of the BBC, she was in love and about to be married, with the expectation of starting a family. Then came the morning of Monday 26 April 1999, when she met her killer on her own doorstep, a shocking tragedy in an ordinary street.
In this moving and intimate biography, David James Smith explores the life and death of the woman who charmed middle England, especially its men, and inspired love and loyalty in nearly all who knew her. Here too is a woman plagued by doubts and disappointments; an ambitious woman who felt betrayed by the BBC, who contrived to create a public image of herself as "bland" while privately she was having a ball.
Written with the co-operation of Jill's family, fiancé Alan Farthing and the police, 'All About Jill' supplies the richly detailed context of a celebrated life and inexplicable death. One of the most enduring murder mysteries of modern times, David James Smith's compelling account carries us beyond a crime into the very heart of modern celebrity.
