Pauline Prescott asked to write memoirs

John Prescott's memoirs, Prezza – My Story: Pulling No Punches, did not trouble the bestseller lists when they were published last year. But it looks like the former deputy prime minister's wife, Pauline (pictured), could fare a lot better if she decides to write an account of her own life.

Since appearing on her husband's BBC television series on the British class system last year, in which she effortlessly stole the show, Pauline, 68, has been inundated with offers, some as high as £100,000, to write her autobiography. A source close to the family told the Mail on Sunday: "She [Pauline] wants to take time and consider them. It will be about her own life story, not about Westminster. Her life is probably just as remarkable as John's."

Pauline, a former hairdresser, married Prescott in 1961. While she has studiously kept herself out of the public eye, she has been around for all of the most momentous efforts within the Labour Party in the last three decades – including, of course, the revelation in 2006 of her husband’s affair with his diary secretary, Tracey Temple.

"It would be very much her story," a publishing source tells The First Post. "She sees things that her husband, because of his rather narrow view of the world, would have missed. And she can be very funny."

Indeed she can. One of the highlights of her television debut came when she and Prescott visited the Tory peer the Earl of Onslow at his stately pile. Spotting that his flies were undone, she said: "How do you tell a lord his zip is down? You can't, can you? Shall I curtsey first and then tell him?"