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In this personal memoir about life at Number 10, former first lady Sarah Brown shares the highs and lows of being married to a man who becomes prime minister. If you ve ever wondered what it s like to shop with special branch, overcome stomach-churning nerves at your first major charity event or cope with a bad hair day when Carla Bruni s in town, it s all here from the early days of finding a new role for herself as an international charity campaigner, giving up a successful career in PR to do so, to the challenges of balancing trips to school plays with state visits and supporting the man you love when the country is in financial turmoil. Sarah Brown has will remain an iconic figure for many things- her championing the British Fashion industry, having the most followers on Twitter and those poignant photos of she, Gordon and their boys leaving Number 10. Intimate, reflective, surprising and funny, Behind the Black Door takes us behind the scenes to reveal what it s like to be an ordinary woman, wife and mother in somewhat exceptional circumstances.

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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 * 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 *

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Sarah Brown is President of the charity PiggyBankKids and Patron of a number of charities including Wellbeing of Women, Women's Aid and Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. She is also the Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, and Co-Chair of the High Level Leadership Group on Maternal and Infant Mortality convened by the Global Leaders Network. She and Gordon have two boys, John and Fraser, and she tweets at www.twitter.com/sarahbrownuk.

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