A flapping good read

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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


8 thoughts on A flapping good read

  • 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!

  • 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

  • “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.

  • 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

  • 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

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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. She writes a beauty blog wwwbeautyorbeast.uk.

Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as writing regularly for newspapers and magazines, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Sweden that will be published in spring 2018. Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and came out in paperback in April 2018.

Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives between there and London 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

Welcome to Sweden; Gibson Square summer 2018

 

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