{"product_id":"9780349144405","title":"Diary of an MP's Wife","description":"Author: Sasha Swire\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349144405\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Nov 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 544 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026lt;h3\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR\u0026lt;\/h3\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark's' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An acute political intelligence at work' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping'\u003ci\u003e Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one, and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse, Swire has strong political opinions herself - sometimes more 'No, Minister' than 'Yes'. She detonates the stereotype of the dutiful wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace, gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing Street sitting next to Boris Johnson, Devon hedges to partying with City hedgies, she observes the great and the not-so-great at the closest of quarters. The results are painfully revealing and often hilariously funny. Here are the friendships and the fall-outs, the general elections and the leadership contests, the scandals and the rivalries. Swire showed up, shored up and rarely shut up. She also wrote it all down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiary of an MP's Wife \u003c\/i\u003eis a searingly honest, wildly indiscreet and often uproarious account of what life is like in the thick of it.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Book of the Year in the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003encial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901046898846,"sku":"ING-9780349144405","price":50.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349144405.jpg?v=1782352441","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349144405","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}