Wonderfully enjoyable

Shapely Ankle Preferr'd is an absorbing and intelligent history of the pursuit of love

Elegant, witty, wise and utterly delightful

Shapely Ankle Preferr'd is a perfect little history of the surprisingly long story of those who WLTM

This thorough and thoroughly amusing book suggest that what lonely hearts have always needed is a thick skin, a willing heart and, above all, a GSOH

Beauman has produced a meticulously researched, amusing and poignant study of human nature

[A] sympathetic, wide-ranging survey of lonely people looking for love

An exploration of the way or attitudes to love, relationships, sex and marriage have evolved over the past three centuries... Fascinating, illuminating and thought-provoking

Anything but dry or academic

A clever history

What makes his memoir so absorbing as it swings from clever phrase-making and thoughtful contemporary history to wince-inducing self-analysis, is that he is the first of a generation of politicians to conduct their craft as if observing themselves from an amused an admiring distance - and then to write about it. No recent politician has examines his own motives and psychology quite so candidly

It is the small revelations about the character of Blair that make this book worthwhile

It's a gripping insight into the ex-PM's ten years of power . . . It will take a lot for many people to read his own take on the rise and fall of New Labour, but those that do might be reminded of the charm and vision that swept him to power

I have read many a prime ministerial memoir and none of the other authors has been as self-deprecating, as willing to admit mistakes and to tell jokes against themselves

Paints a candid picture of his friend and rival, Gordon Brown, and of their relationship