Jonathan Aitken offers fifty selected prayers, each accompanied by a spiritual reflection and a personal autobiographical comment.

The book opens with a 9,000-word autobiographical introduction, Journey Into Prayer, which explains how the author has collected, and in some cases written, the prayers in this book during his many experiences of life under pressure. In his colourful career, Jonathan Aitken has been a war correspondent in Vietnam, a television presenter, the chief executive of TV-am, the chairman of a merchant bank, an MP, a Cabinet Minister, a prisoner in HMP Belmarsh and a student of theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. So he writes from hearfelt experience for those who are under pressure and want to build a relationship with God through prayer.