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Mathematical genius

22nd October 2009 by Helena 1 Comment  

Rupert often tells me that the girls are just like me and that Leo is just like him. This happens a lot when they are being difficult, which is most of the time at the moment.

I have tended to agree with him but now have evidence that Leo has, after all, inherited something from his mother.

We were driving home from football the other day when Leo piped up with the following statement:
“There’s a boy in my class, so stupid, he has no idea what deux mille plus deux mille makes. I mean, everybody knows it makes 102!”

leo on boat

It has been a busy week, hence no posts. Among other things I have interviewed the Swiss/Italian billionaire America’s Cup winner Ernesto Bertarelli (sooo charming), been to my first-ever fashion show (blooming thin those models) and this evening am off to the American Ambassador’s residence for a concert by the New York Philharmonic followed by dinner with a Sheikh.

And if anyone asks me what deux mille plus deux mille is, I will know the answer.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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  • Cate Jumeirah says:
    23rd October 2009 at 6:18 am

    Is your Swiss millionaire the Alinghi team owner? If so, do hope he wins his battle to keep the Americas Cup in RAK for it’ll do so much for this little Emirate. And they’re working so hard up there to ensure it goes well.
    Lucky you with a private concert by the New York Phil. And lucky all of us for at long last being able to listen to a classical music station in the Emirates, and it’s courtesy of the media group that owns The National! Previously, we had to wait until someone important died and it was sombre-music-only-during-period-of-mourning before we got to hear anything decent on the radio. How interesting though that The National reported this on the front page of the BUSINESS section.
    Have a great weekend, Helena. Abu Dhabi is the place in the world to be right now!

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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

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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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