It’s one thing to look like a prince, it’s quite another to be one in a tell-all by your ex-wife, in which you’re shown up for the frog that you are. And, unforgivably, a miscarriage that Jemima had and was very upset about. While taking considerable pains to cast herself as a feminist battler, she thinks nothing of maligning a number of women. I won’t repeat what she says here, but she certainly names and — gratuitously — details their private, sexual history with Imran Khan as well as other people. But the question is, what does it add up to? Not very much. The first half of the book, about her first marriage, makes for far better reading because there’s much more psychological depth in her analysis of it.Anupama Chandra is a film editor and bibliophile. Reham, on the other hand, is careful to describe her own unquestionable piety, unwavering faith in the tenets of the Quran and her devotion to her marriage. He laughs at her naivety, or explodes in rage. I tried to follow, but lost interest soon, coming away with the usual subcontinental tale of favours for gifts and gifts for favours. She spent over 15 years with Ijaz Rehman after all. I felt quite bad for Reham here. Leaving out flowers for her.. While we face-palm, she innocently asks her husband what it is that jar sitting in the bedside drawer. And, in the hands of a better editor, it might have been. If all that’s true, I feel bad for her too — married to a depraved narcissist, when she wanted a saint. Reham is unsparing and nothing escapes her notice: His awful table manners, his disgusting bathroom habits, his badly-kept house, his horrible father and sisters, his long-suffering mother, his vicious dog, his terrible, terrible ex-wife (Jemima, who has also threatened Reham Khan with libel), his cynical politics, his sycophantic hangers-on, his ignorance of just about everything, his jealousy and suspicion.Reham spends a long time discovering things in drawers — joints, packets of white powder and tubes of KY jelly.

His tenderness for his children. The only reason I mention this here is that I was appalled by Reham Khan’s insensitivity in disclosing it to the world.But there are some undeniably bitchy bits she lets slip in, for which, I believe, she must indeed be sued. The book needed analysis and reflection, a toning down of the urge to disclose "everything" in order to lay before the world, as she’s claimed her motive to have been, what kind of man the current Prime Minister of Pakistan is. It’s little more than a list of Imran Khan’s caster wheels Manufacturers failings and sins, often with incredibly minor events recounted to illustrate major character flaws. Though, in my opinion, she sinks to her lowest when she criticises his children with Jemima, comparing them unfavourably to her own. But her memoir will haunt him for a while.I’m sure a lot of this might well be true.Imran Khan has been getting very good press since he became Prime Minister, and interest in Reham Khan’s book seems to have waned for now. His friendship with Jemima, in spite of it all. And — something I truly empathised with — his terror of lizards.. But then, despite herself, Reham does paint in a few rosier shades.But then, I also felt bad for Imran Khan.A number of reviews have called Reham Khan’s book brave. It is really no business of hers at all.

And then, bigger things: his drug habit, his bisexuality, his political compromises, his very strange friends.There are other things in the book about how surprised and disgusted Reham is by the political corruption she finds all around her, but you’d have to be an avid follower of every minor episode in Pakistani politics to find it interesting. Hugging her all night. Behind it, there’s an angry and upset woman and — if she only knew it — an even angrier and upset man. But the 10 months or so that she was married to Imran Khan sound like the marriage of two people who rushed into it without knowing each other at all. Unexpected things, like wanting to dance with her all night to Dr Hook singing the classic, When you’re in love with a beautiful woman. It sounds like the kind of thing that might happen — weddings and photo-ops are never fun for the bride and groom, and it must be harder to feel enthusiastic about them when you’re both middle-aged and on your second marriages.Maybe he is awful