{"product_id":"diary-of-an-mps-wife-inside-and-outside-power-paperback","title":"Diary of an Mp's Wife: Inside and Outside Power - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSasha Swire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\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. \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\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\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSasha Swire was raised and educated in west Cornwall, where her father, Sir John Nott, was MP for the St Ives constituency. She was a journalist on national and regional publications and in Asia before working as her husband Hugo Swire's political researcher from 2001 to 2019. She divides her time between Devon and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 7.56 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47392279429298,"sku":"9780349144405","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/89fab85481fb8fda87f9617b30c6e7b6.webp?v=1777959751","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/diary-of-an-mps-wife-inside-and-outside-power-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}