Sarah Vine

An unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it's like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. It’s a story of high hopes and dirty tricks, broken friendships and divided loyalties, laughter and glamour.

For nearly 20 years the former Mrs Michael Gove was inside the rooms of government, a sanctioned eavesdropper on the rise – and fall – of the Cameroon style of Conservatism. At the same time she was building a career in journalism, raising two children and doing her best to support her husband on his political journey. She was both an insider and an outsider; an observer – via her journalism – as well as a participant in the cut and thrust of frontline politics.

After her divorce and the demise of the Conservatives’ Old Guard, that all came to an end. She’s no longer officially a Westminster WAG, but you won’t find her in mourning. Politics trampled her health, her happiness, her marriage and her sanity; and it placed intolerable pressure on her loved ones, especially her children.

Hailed as 'the political memoir Westminster is dreading,' the Daily Mail columnist's explosively honest and razor-sharp book charts her experiences of observing the country's political elite from close proximity when married to Conservative big-wig, Michael Gove.