{"product_id":"diary-of-an-mps-wife-inside-and-outside-power-riotously-candid-sunday-times","title":"Diary of an MP's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark's' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An acute political intelligence at work' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping'\u003ci\u003e Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647977931096,"sku":"9780349144405","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780349144405.jpg?v=1770500727","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/diary-of-an-mps-wife-inside-and-outside-power-riotously-candid-sunday-times","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}