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How Not to Be a Political Wife

by Sarah Vine

HarperCollins UK2025ISBN 9780008746582

1 of 7 critics positive

7 reviews: 1 positive, 5 mixed, 1 pan

What the critics said

Positive
“I found Sarah Vine's book unexpectedly heart-wrenching”

I found Sarah Vine's book unexpectedly heart-wrenching

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Mixed
“a bitter memoir of power and betrayal”

How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal

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Mixed
“gossipy zeal and an astonishing lack of self-awareness”

Sarah Vine calls David Cameron a ‘man-baby’ – but she is still hung up on Samantha

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Mixed
“Ridiculous yet compulsive”

Sarah Vine’s scenes from a Brexit marriage

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Mixed
“fascinating, embarrassing and fundamentally tragic”

Sarah Vine’s memoir is fascinating, embarrassing and fundamentally tragic

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Mixed
“Sarah Vine's juicy account of modern politics”

Inside the Notting Hill court of the (very posh) Camerons

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Pan
“a study in overwhelming self-pity”

What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?

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