Behind the Black Door
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  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446446652
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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Behind the Black Door

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15 Mar 2011
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3 Mar 2011
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15 Feb 2012
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Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, gives her personal account of life at number 10 Downing Street. The Sunday Times bestseller

In this personal memoir about life at 10 Downing Street, Sarah Brown shares the secrets of living behind the most famous front door in the world.

Sarah gave up a successful career in business to serve the country. A passionate campaigner for women and children, she mobilised over a million people through her early adoption of Twitter.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to pack for a photo call with supermodels or pause a speech in front of hundreds when the autocue fails, it's all here - from what to do when the school play clashes with a visit to the White House to what it feels like to support the man you love as he takes tough decisions to stave off global financial meltdown...

Intimate, reflective, surprising and funny, Behind the Black Door takes us backstage to reveal what it's like to be an ordinary woman, wife and mother in extraordinary circumstances.
  • Published: 15 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446446652
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
Categories:

About the author

Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown is President of the charity PiggyBankKids and Patron of a number of charities including Women's Aid, Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres and SHINE Education Trust. She is also the Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, a member of the Global Campaign for Education's High Level Panel and an international speaker on maternal health, and women's issues. She and Gordon have two boys, John and Fraser, and she tweets at www.twitter.com/SarahBrownUK.

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Praise for Behind the Black Door

A fascinating insight into the Browns' 1046 days in power

Daily Record

A loyal, loving, positive account of what can be achieved by a Prime Minister's supportive wife

The Times

An intriguing insight into the day-to-day domestic life of Number 10 and the unique challenges that face the wife, or husband of the prime minister

Yorkshire Evening Post

Brown is well posed to exploit a fresh readership. She has attracted more than 1 million followers on Twitter, overtaking the ubiquitous Stephen Fry to become the most followed Briton on the micro-blogging site

Guardian

Fascinating and endearing

Woman's Own

Fascinating reading

Laura Barton, Guardian

For her many fans, this memoir is a portrait of a mother with a baby girl to grieve for and two small boys to raise - one of whom has cycstic fibrosis. Whatever the reviewers say, she is a natural heroine to the Mumsnet demographic

The Lady

Of all the New Labour memoirs, there is a sense in the publishing industry that Mrs Brown's book could be the most successful of them all

Dylan Jones, Independent

School run, conference call, Obama for tea - Sarah Brown smiled, and tweeted, through it all. I love this woman

Caitlin Moran, author of HOW TO BE A WOMAN

Warm and candid

Daily Mail