Click to play videoNew Delhi: First ladies don't often write memoirs and certainly no other first lady has ever written one like Cherie Booth Blair's Speaking for Myself.
While her obvious adoration of husband and former British prime minister Tony Blair runs right through the book, Cherie makes it clear that she isn't always impressed.
After the painful and bloody birth of her first child, for example, she writes, he pressed her to pose for a photo for the local press. She writes: "My last thoughts as I went to sleep that night were of my husband: I hate this man."
Not just as a wife, Cherie is equally candid about the stresses of juggling all she does - as a mother of four, daughter of famous TV actor, a lawyer and someone who s generally prone to faux pas.
It's why she includes in her book that the conception of their fourth child was an accident, a result of a cold night at the Queens Castle in Scotland and the fact that she didn't pack her contraceptive.
Revenge is sometimes a dish best served lukewarm is how critics see Speaking For Myself. But in Cherie's words, "It is simply one woman's attempt to recollect her life - a memoir of someone who, for a time, had a walk-on part in history, a walk on part that was a tightrope act under a harsh spotlight and in the full view of millions worldwide."
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