Lavender Patten is considering publishing a diary she kept during her husband's five-year term as Governor of Hong Kong.
Mrs Patten is staying at the family home in France while her husband is in the UK at their new house in Barnes, West London, putting the finishing touches to his own book East and West.
She has said she hopes to resume her career as a barrister when she eventually moves back to the UK but is also considering publishing a book of her recollections of her years in Hong Kong.
'I did keep a diary in Hong Kong. To turn it into something publishable would take quite a lot of work; but I have it in mind,' she said in an interview published in The Daily Telegraph.
Mrs Patten, 53, said she enjoyed her time in Hong Kong and supporting social welfare groups.
'I found I could be quite helpful to community groups by putting a word in the right ear. I also helped to alter some traditional views. When we arrived, the authorities there did not have much sympathy for battered wives,' she said. 'By the time we left, the Government had really taken the problem on board; the same with child abuse.' She also revealed that her husband relaxed when under pressure in Hong Kong by looking at photographs of the farm house they bought in southwest France.