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Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography Hardcover – 15 May 2008

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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (15 May 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1408700980
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408700983
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.7 x 24 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
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An intmate and humorous portrait of a family living in extraordinary circumstances (Independent)

Charming, frank and funny (Judy Finnegan, Daily Express)

A riveting read (Times * 'Genuinely fascinating story')

Sunday Express ('Warm, often humorous, at times painfully sad')

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*'I feel so privileged to have travelled so far. So much has happened ... that it feels wrong somehow just to let it pass as if the journey had no meaning.' CHERIE BLAIR

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3.0 out of 5 starsDoes everybody have an opinion about this woma.n?
By A reader on 24 Jun. 2008
Format: Hardcover
Reading the other reviews written about this book will show you that Cherie Blair is a woman about whom everybody has an opinion, and a strong one, at that.

This book is not a political biography, nor an analysis of the first ten years of the New Labour Government. It is a partial biography written by a woman who has some claim to recognition in her own right, but whose major claim to fame is that she is married to Tony Blair. Interestingly, although she uses Cherie Booth as her professional name, and most of her other books have been written under that name, this book was by Cherie Blair.

Cherie Blair is obviously an intelligent woman, graduating top of her year in law, and forging a career at the bar (in what is still a male-dominated profession) whilst looking after a home and family. What's more, she made it against all odds, coming from what was virtually a one-parent family at a time when such families did not receive the support that they now enjoy. Perhaps that goes some way towards explaining her extraordinary blend of shrewdness and naivete.

Surely she must have realised that, on the day after her husband became Prime Minister, there would be cameras trained on her front door - and that any embarrassing photographs would be recycled endlessly? How could she have been taken in by the likes of Carole Caplin? Didn't she have any friends of her own who could have pointed out the obvious truth that hangers-on who were attracted to her because of her position were in it for their benefit, and not hers? Even on leaving Number 10, didn't she realise that her throwaway line to the press about not missing them, even if intended as a joke, would be the thing that most people remembered about her husband's exit from the highest office in the land?Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsCherie's shrill voice on two Tonies- one husband and one dad, on heaps of Tory dirt and tons of women
By mangilli-climpson m on 14 Aug. 2015
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When Mrs Tony Blair, or Cherie Booth, QC, as she is known professionally was the Prime Minister's wife, an idea arose to write a British version to the US Hidden Power on the British Premier's spouses as a direct rival to Hichens' Prime Ministers' Wives - and One Husband, and the present volume might be her own life up to June 2007. In a sense her story is how The Goldfish Bowl should have appeared The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister: the wives' personal stories placed in the forefront with the international and domestic politics carried on by politician in N°10 in the background, and perhaps this is why this tome even if only about one spouse and the first in the Twenty-first century is more successful than the others.

Blair/Booth's tale is much more balanced because she can split her chapters and her life three ways: a full-time career woman of the law unafraid to speak her mind on the issues that interest her; a modern mother; as well as being a loyal wife to a political husband, to her immediate family and close friends, to the Labour Party, and on policies such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that are still relevant, she like Blair himself in the Journey needs to be scathing and selective with details before the publication of the much awaited Chilcot Enquiry A Journey.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFascinating character study of a flawed woman who's led an interesting life
By Julia Flyte TOP 500 REVIEWER on 6 Jun. 2008
Format: Hardcover
Let me start by saying: if you don't like Cherie Blair, this is not the book that will change your mind. I started reading it with an open mind, but by the end even I was getting tired of her! Having said that, I enjoyed reading "Speaking for Myself" and I recommend it (which may sound strange, but only if you think you need to like the subject of a biography to enjoy reading it).

One of the things that has always intrigued me about Mrs Blair is that she is such a contrast: a high achiever with a great deal of intelligence and yet so devoid of emotional intelligence that she is oblivious to the way that she comes across. It's clear from reading this book that she is a warm and caring person, intensely loyal to her family and friends, who does a lot for charity. It's also clear that she has poor personal judgement and no idea how to read situations.

Cherie grew up in working class Liverpool. Her father was largely absent from her life (she only found out that she had a new step-sister when she saw the birth notice in the newspaper). She was raised by her grandmother and mother and developed a strong sense of feminism from an early age. What's interesting is that she then chose to go into law - one of the most conservative occupations that she could have chosen - and to marry a man whose political ambitions meant that she was condemning herself to playing a support role. She makes a throwaway comment at one stage about how simple her life could have been had she chosen to marry someone else, but the fact is that she made her choices knowingly and yet proceeds to complain about the consequences at great length. It's hard to muster the sympathy that she clearly feels she deserves.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsReally really wonderful book. Best book i have read for a ...

Really really wonderful book. Best book i have read for a long time. Cherie is very warm and genuine lady. Helen knapp

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Published 22 months ago by William Phelps
5.0 out of 5 starsIt's a good book, content is fantastic.

Cherie provides a nice take on things as she saw them, it's certainly not an entertaining book, or a page turner, but the content is good and she has been very particular with her... Read more

Published on 7 Sept. 2014 by PageTurner
4.0 out of 5 starsI liked this book

I really liked this book, I have read many political autobiographies and I felt that this was more honest than usual. Read more

Published on 19 Dec. 2012 by dice1212
4.0 out of 5 starsspeaking personally........

After wading through this, I am left with 2 thoughts;
I'd love to get Ms Booth round for a girls' night and fill her full of enough drink to get her to be really indiscreet,... Read more

Published on 2 Feb. 2012 by Ms. Fiona Allen
1.0 out of 5 starsWhat about the important stuff ?

The beautiful Cherie Blair (who is not as pretty as Sarah Brown- Gordon's wife) does not write much about her working life. Read more

Published on 13 Nov. 2011 by Billy Ray Cyrus
5.0 out of 5 starsBritains most reviled woman

Quite possibly one of the least popular British women of her generation, a much vilified target of tabloid editors, rarely publicly praised, a frequent target for snide ridicule. Read more

Published on 22 May 2011 by Sergei Ostroumov

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