Cherie Blair memoir to hit bookshops next year

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LONDON (AFP) — Cherie Blair has struck a deal to publish "a warm, intimate" and funny memoir of her family's life in politics, her publisher said Wednesday.

Cherie Blair, who uses her maiden name Booth in her career as a human rights lawyer, will see her memoir hit the shelves in October 2008, said the 'Little, Brown' publishing house.

The publisher declined to say how much it was paying for the book, which it described as a "warm, intimate and often very funny portrait of a family living in extraordinary circumstances."

It appears Cherie's book will be published before an autobiography by her husband.

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