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A flapping good read

23rd May 2008 by Helena 8 Comments  

Flapping 'eck...I received an email a few days ago I would like to share with you….

Bonjour, I happened to meet your famous book “Two Lipsticks and a Lover”. It gives me great happiness. It was fascinating and made me flap my hands. I had lived in France for over 10 years, from 1990. As a foreigner and mother of French children, your book encourages me to ask your permission. I would like to translate your book in Korean language. Looking forward to having your favourable reply, I extend my best respects.

The thought of Two Lipsticks-reading Koreans flapping their hands is too charming and so of course I am going to give her the go-ahead.

When did you last “meet” a book that made you want to flap your hands and what was it? For me it was Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. I am on the look-out for good books to meet and take with me on our Grand Tour, so any suggestions are welcome.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


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8 thoughts on A flapping good read

  • Miko says:
    23rd May 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Hi Helena.
    If you haven’t read it yet I truly recommend “Shantaram”by Gregory David Roberts. You won’t be able to put it down,promise. This one will make you wiggle your head Bombay style.
    Bon Voyage!

  • Jacques says:
    23rd May 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Lynne Truss’s book on punctuation “Eats, shoots and leaves” is also a must. It’s funny too and would save me a lot of corrections.
    Jacques

  • cj says:
    27th May 2008 at 11:30 am

    “The Time Traveller’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger; “Twins” by Tessa de Loo; and “David Golder” by Irene Nemirovsky (actually, ANYTHING by her). Happy reading! You’ll be flapping like mad. I am off to France soon for my holiday, so I am getting my books ready, as well.

  • helena says:
    27th May 2008 at 11:39 am

    Thanks CJ, I have read David Golder – brilliant, but will try the others. Have a good holiday. I am re-reading The Great Gatsby right now – fantastic.
    Hx

  • Stephanella says:
    27th May 2008 at 4:45 pm

    The last book I met that made me flap my hands was Spider-man The Icon, a comprehensive popular culture insight into this most beloved character. I am thrilled with the book; it validates half of my PhD in the making (not that I needed that validation, but it’s somehow nice to know that you’re not alone in considering Spider-man a contemporary icon!). All the best,

    Steph

    http://www.domestic-miss.blogspot.com

  • GHCH says:
    28th May 2008 at 3:31 pm

    To Jacques.

    Lynne Truss may be “funny”, but she won’t teach you how to write. The New Yorker will.
    http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/28/040628crbo_books1

  • alan says:
    18th June 2008 at 7:22 am

    Your stories are so boring.

  • helena says:
    18th June 2008 at 7:55 am

    Well then Alan I suggest you stop reading them. In fact, you’re banned from my blog, GO!

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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.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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