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Amanyara

16th November 2006 by Helena 1 Comment  

It’s only when you go somewhere like Amanyara where I have just come back from that you realise how ghastly most of the world is. I am sitting at Charles de Gaulle airport where my flight to Montpellier is delayed, my head full of the colours of the Caribbean and the peace of the resort. We have had four days there of total heaven.

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The architecture is Asian, as is most of the staff. Everything is made from wood, most of it imported from Indonesia, and someone has really thought about how to blend the resort in with the countryside and coastline around. It’s the first time I have ever thought that nature could actually benefit from a development. Everywhere you go at Amanyara a smiling member of staff brings you a bottle of water.

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There are more places to lie down than to sit, all with magnificent view over the blue ocean or the many man-made ponds that give it such a zen-like feel. We went to look at some of the 33 houses they are building. My husband is writing a piece for the Times about them. Priced from $8 million to $15 million, with annual fees of $120,000, these are not the cheapest houses in the Caribbean. But they are certainly the most stylish. Why can’t the whole world look like an Aman resort? And where is that charming little man with a bottle of water as I sit here at the airport thirsty and miserable after a ten-hour flight?


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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.

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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

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

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Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

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Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

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The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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