Despite being married to the former Deputy Prime Minister and Labour MP since the 1970s, Pauline Prescott has been in the public eye for nearly 40 years and has never given a media interview. She is not the typical politician's wife: pregnant aged 15, she gave the baby up for adoption, only for the press to find him 40 years later, and it was her wages as a hairdresser that put her husband through 8 years of university. National newspaper serialisation planned.