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Can a man really do any job a woman can? asks FEMAIL as an ex-policeman becomes matron at a top boarding school

23rd November 2020

YES  By Libby Purves So eyebrows have been raised at the newly appointed matron of a boarding house at St Edward’s School in Oxford.  Not only, gasp, is the new ‘Matey’ not a looming Hattie Jacques figure in a big starched apron — he’s a …

These feminist puritans need a flirty Frenchman to snap them out of their self-obsession

10th October 2020

Thank goodness for the French. The actress and political activist Catherine Deneuve, along with 99 of her countrywomen, has denounced the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment as ‘puritanism’ fuelled by ‘hatred of men’. Meanwhile, many in Britain, …

The Femail Face-off: As a top US expert says it’s time to ditch our touchy-feely ways… Should we ban handshakes and hugs for good?

10th October 2020

YES By Kate Spicer Once we are on the other side of this pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci, Donald Trump’s virus expert, says we should carry on compulsively washing our hands and refusing handshakes. What? No shaking hands ever again, you say? The mere prosp …

Sex in la Cité really is a Carrie on! The French are up in arms about Netflix’s racy new hit Emily In Paris – but for a Brit who lives in France, it rings all too true

10th October 2020

Despite French criticism, the series has drawn a huge audience, thanks in no small part to its heritage. If you’re getting déjà vu — pretty young woman working in media teetering round a major city in ever more extravagant outfits — it’s no coincidence …

Should affairs in the office be forbidden? After a City firm sacks two staff for having work romances, two writers give their opposing views

10th September 2020

NO By Helena Frith Powell How would you feel if you had to sign a ‘no romance’ clause when you started a new job? Astonishingly, this is now common practice in the U.S. Meanwhile, BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset-management firms which has a …

John Lewis has opened its first cosmetics counter for men, so: Could you fancy your husband if he wore ‘manscara’?

15th January 2020

YES By Jenni Murray   My old man isn’t likely to be among the first in line at the new John Lewis make-up counter for men, but would I find him less attractive if he were? Certainly not. Why shouldn’t he pop a smidgen of Touche Eclat over his …

Books

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles

2016
Gibson Square

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The Arnolfini Marriage

2016
Amazon Kindle

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The Ex Factor

2013
Gibson Square

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More, More France

2009
Gibson Square

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To Hell in High Heels

2009
Arrow Books

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Love in a Warm Climate

2009
Gibson Square

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The Viva Mayr Diet

2009
Harper Collins

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Ciao Bella

2006
Gibson Square

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All You Need to be Impossibly French

2006
Penguin Books US

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Two Lipsticks and a Lover

2005
Arrow Books

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More France Please we’re British

2004
Gibson Square

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About Helena Frith Powell

Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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