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Abbott signs book deal to ‘tell my own story’ in memoir
Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Pic: Diane Abbott’s communication office
Diane Abbott, the Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, who was the UK’s first black female MP has signed a book deal to publish her autobiography next summer.
The memoir titled, ‘A Woman Like Me’, was announced on International Women’s Day by Penguin imprint Viking who obtained the rights in a six-way auction.
In response to the announcement of the book to be published on the 35
th anniversary of Abbott’s entry into Parliament as a Labour MP in 1987, she tweeted: ‘Pleased to get a chance to tell my own story’.