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Another tough assignment….

21st May 2008 by Helena 6 Comments  

Hotel ByblosI would like to give you all an insight into my hard working life. Rupert and I are in St Tropez at the chicest hotel in town, Byblos, which has been the best address in St Tropez since 1967 when Mick Jagger married Bianca on a terrace here. Guests include Brigitte Bardot, George Clooney and, er, my husband and I.

We are on a most gruelling schedule. Here is the itinerary for today:

Breakfast at leisure

Free time to explore St Tropez

1.00pm Lunch by the pool

18.00 Spa treatment

19.30 Cocktails and dinner at B bar.

I think you will agree that this is far too much to expect a person to do in just one day and support me in my letter of complaint to the National Union of Journalists.

As if this isn’t enough, tomorrow they expect us to go for lunch at Club 55. We will no doubt be forced to eat and drink for several hours while watching the waves gently lap the shore and spotting celebrities in exile from the Cannes Film Festival.

Is there no end to our suffering?

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


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6 thoughts on Another tough assignment....

  • gillie says:
    21st May 2008 at 10:52 pm

    I am sure that an appropriately worded letter to the NUJ will lead to a junket of journalists (not sure of the collective noun) hotfooting it to St Tropez on a fact checking mission prior to their launching of an appeal to save you from unnecessary luxury. Should back up be required I am on 24 hour call LOL

  • Miko says:
    22nd May 2008 at 5:09 am

    And what exactly are you supposed to do? Sound just perfect ,don’t tell me you have to work as well! Skål.

  • Letizia says:
    22nd May 2008 at 12:36 pm

    I could take your place and end your suffering Helena! really, there would be no need to thank me…it’s a pleasure! i love working hard, but i have to say the worst bit would be the SPA…That’s awfully tiring! how can you put up with it Helena? we’re all with you…xx

  • helena says:
    22nd May 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Thank you all for your support. I am back home now and as you can imagine most relieved to see the dishwasher, washing machine etc etc.
    Hx

  • sharyn G says:
    22nd May 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Dear Helena,

    Welcome back to reality. The break from it makes all the difference.

    Sharyn G.

  • Josephine says:
    29th May 2008 at 8:53 pm

    I would love to stay in a hotel with BB! How is she looking these days? Two things I differ from the rest of the planet
    1/ I think Bardot became even more beautiful as she aged and her face gained character
    2/ George Clooney doesnt ring my bells.

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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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