Nicola Sturgeon to publish her 'deeply personal' memoir

Nicola Sturgeon says she is penning a memoir covering her proudest achievements and regrets from her clip successful politics.

Scotland's erstwhile archetypal curate said she would "reveal the idiosyncratic down the politics" successful the book, which is owed to beryllium released successful 2025.

Pan Macmillan has purchased the rights to the book, which it promised would beryllium "deeply idiosyncratic and revealing".

Ms Sturgeon's memoir volition beryllium released successful hardback, eBook and audio formats.

She said: "I person loved my beingness successful politics, but ever since I was a kid I person harboured an ambition to write.

"I americium thrilled to beryllium moving with Pan MacMillan, a globally-renowned steadfast with arrogant Scottish roots."

Ms Sturgeon said the imaginable of penning the publication was breathtaking and daunting.

It volition screen an epoch successful British and Scottish Politics which included the 2014 Scottish independency referendum and the Brexit vote.

Ms Sturgeon added: "I purpose to chronicle cardinal events of the past 3 decades and instrumentality the scholar down the scenes to picture however it felt to beryllium 'in the room', who other was there, the relationships progressive and however decisions were arrived at."

She took implicit arsenic person of the Scottish National Party aft the 2014 referendum and remained successful complaint until February this year.

The memoir promises to uncover Ms Sturgeon's emergence from being a "shy kid from a working-class household successful Ayrshire to the steps of Bute House".

Pan MacMillan is portion of the MacMillan Publishers International group, which was founded successful the 1800s by Scottish brothers, Daniel and Alexander MacMillian.

The steadfast acquired the rights to the publication successful an auction among 9 antithetic publishers. It has not been revealed however overmuch was paid.

Mike Harpley, Pan MacMillan's non-fiction publishing director, said helium was looking guardant to moving with Ms Sturgeon who helium described arsenic a "lover of literature".

He said: "It is nary astonishment that the extracts she has already written are notable for their wit, honesty and fantabulous writing."