Amy was “an OK actress” and later a social worker and a psychotherapist before realising that her childhood love of reading and her parents’ jobs as journalists were clues to her true calling. She spoke to Sue Leonard.

EINA McHUGH

FOR BOTH Oprah Winfrey and her millions of fans, it’s the end of an era: Wednesday saw the final ever episode of Oprah’s astonishingly successful daytime talk show.