My second stinker review, this time from Lesley White in the Sunday Times:

Should David Blunkett ever find himself short of a guide dog, the author of this timely biography might fill in nicely; touchingly loyal, eager to please, skilled in avoiding tricky areas. This is the book at the centre of the home secretary’s resignation, vehicle for those incendiary comments about colleagues — Patricia Hewitt doesn’t think “strategically”; acolytes of Gordon Brown are “slime from under stones” and the rest. It has also pulled off the unprecedented feat of both canonising its subject and expediting his fall from grace. Its sales will be borne on the wings of dazzling publicity and — here’s the best bit — it was published 10 days before Christmas, a perfect stocking-filler for the season of forgiveness. How lucky can a wet-nosed helpmate get?

She didn't like it.