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All I want for my birthday…

15th December 2012 by Helena 3 Comments  

Tomorrow is my birthday. There is always a lot of pressure to enjoy one’s birthday, to have a perfect day doing whatever you want to do, so I am slightly panicking and wondering what on earth to do.
I’m not really sure what my perfect day would be, it’s not really like I have an awful lot of bad days. Tomorrow for example I will still go to the ladies’ tennis social at my club much as I would any other Sunday. I might give the core training class that precedes it a miss though. As far as other things that would make my day, here is a short list:

A Chelsea win. We are playing in the final of the Club World Cup in Japan.
A plate of pasta
A glass of wine (or two)
Getting my nails done
The girls suddenly realising there is more to life than The Vampire Diaries
Chelsea Youth Academy calling to tell me they have heard about a future Frank Lampard lurking in Abu Dhabi and are keen to meet him, and also offer his mother a job as head of PR for the club
A film company calling to tell me one (or why not all?) of my books have been optioned by a vast Hollywood studio
A massage
My husband telling me has decided to write another book
The magazine going to press (due to happen tomorrow) without any mistakes in it
Man United to lose

There is more, but that’s enough for now. And at least two of those will come true; pasta and wine for lunch. Happy Birthday to me!

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2012


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3 thoughts on All I want for my birthday...

  • Louise Williams says:
    15th December 2012 at 7:20 am

    Happy Birthday for tomorrow!
    Hope you get all of those things (apart from Man United to lose!).x

  • Helena says:
    15th December 2012 at 9:29 am

    Thanks! x

  • Jennifer Wells says:
    1st January 2013 at 11:47 am

    Too late for this year, but the best present I ever gave myself was permission to not worry about anything for a day.

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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. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

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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