Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah will be writing a “very personal memoir” about life in Downing Street.
The book will be published on Mother’s Day next year by Ebury Publishing, a division of Random House Group. It will be priced £18.99. This year, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and senior Labour leader Lord Mandelson will publish their memoirs on 13 years of Labour party’s tryst with power in Britain.
Forty-six-year-old Sarah, who married Gordon Brown when he was the chancellor of exchequer in 2000, announced on micro-blogging site Twitter that she had decided to write her memoirs. “Just agreed with my publisher Ebury to write a book, working title Behind the Black Door, so chained to laptop from Monday morning,” she tweeted to her 1,121,941 followers on the website.
Before marriage, Sarah owned and ran PR consultancy Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications with her friend Julia Hobsbawm. She gave up active career to focus on bringing up her two children and spend 10 years in Downing Street, first as the wife of the chancellor of exchequer and almost three years as spouse of the Prime Minister.
Sarah, who describes herself as “mum, charity campaigner, starting new life” on her Twitter website, became popular for raising awareness and for charity fundraising as the Prime Minister’s wife.
She will write “what it’s like to shop with Special Branch,” “overcome stomach churning nerves at the first charity event,” and “cope with a bad hair day when Carla Bruni’s in town,” Ebury said. “Sarah achieved much in her own right during her time in Downing Street, with opportunities that allowed her to meet a wide range of women of all ages...,” Fiona MacIntyre, managing director of Ebury Publishing, said.