This Mess? The Economic Price of Having it All and the Route to Lasting Prosperity. The Observer described it as "A must read...mandatory reading for anyone who wants to have a voice in where we go from here." His book WTF? was published by Hodder & Stoughton in November 2017 and charts the events that led up to the 2016 Brexit referendum. Whistleblower, his first novel, appeared in September 2021. The protagonist is a lobby journalist (political reporter) for the fictional Financial Chronicle and the colourful background to the story, set at the time of the 1997 general election in Britain, reflects Peston's detailed knowledge of his subject. Personal life Peston married British-Canadian writer Siân Busby in 1998, and the two had a son named Maximilian. They had known each other since their teenage years and only rekindled their relationship after her friend, Peston's sister Juliet, was hospitalised after a car crash. In the intervening years, Busby had been married and divorced; Peston became the step-father of her son from that marriage. Busby died in September 2012, at the age of 51, of lung cancer. In September 2018, Peston said he felt guilty after falling in love with another woman several years after his wife's death, and revealed that he was now in a relationship with author and journalist Charlotte Edwardes. Peston lives in the Muswell Hill area of London. After his home was burgled in December 2012, he made an appeal for the return of rings that had belonged to his late wife. Peston is a lifelong supporter of Arsenal FC. He was born into a non-religious Jewish family, and has described himself as culturally Jewish rather than religiously so. In a similar vein, his father was a patron of the British Humanist Association and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, as well as once describing himself as someone "who regards all religious belief as failing to meet even the most elementary epistemological and deontological criteria". In September 2021, Peston stated that he had recently recovered from a COVID-19 infection. Filmography Style and titles Robert James Kenneth Peston (1960–87) The Honourable Robert James Kenneth Peston (since 1987) (He doesn't use this, even though he is entitled to.) See also Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom#Courtesy prefix of "The Honourable" References External links Debrett's People of Today Peston's blog on BBC site |- |- 1960 births Living people