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Please buy this book….

3rd April 2008 by Helena 12 Comments  

Bursting

Today is the publication date of To Hell in High Heels. When my first book came out I was close to bursting with excitement by the time it came out. I counted the days, rather like a child counts the days to his birthday. The same went for the second and the third.

But what I have found with books is that, rather like birthdays, you get all excited about them, but nothing actually changes.

Today will pass much like any other day. Leo will wake up soon and start bossing me about. I will take the children to school where my friend Mary and I will discuss how badly we slept, whether Madonna should be wearing latex underwear aged 50 and grumble about the weather. I will come home and work. Then I will collect the children for lunch, listen to their stories from school, take them back to school and so on. Today will pass just like any other normal school and work day.

Unless of course you ALL go out and buy the book. In which case I may be famous by this time tomorrow. In fact you don’t even have to go out. You can order it from amazon. I am going to have my hair done after the school run just in case.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


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12 thoughts on Please buy this book....

  • Rupert says:
    3rd April 2008 at 9:52 am

    I had no idea you had a book out. I shall go to amazon forthwith. Good title!

  • Sharyn G says:
    3rd April 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Helena,

    I received my copy of the book in the mail yesterday and am on Chapter 6. My husband noted that between the currency exchange rate ;the shipping and customs fees cost more than the book. I am enjoying it! Any chance I could get it autographed and save it for my first editions collection?

    Sharyn G

  • helena says:
    3rd April 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Hello Sharyn
    Yes, of course! And I had the same experience sending it out to people who had helped me, more on postage etc.
    Hope you continue to enjoy it.
    Hx

  • Miko says:
    3rd April 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Congratulations!
    So when are you coming to our new shop Books and Books to talk about the book? (30 Celcius in Cayman now)
    I will have to wait for my copy till I go to the UK in July. Can’t wait!

  • Jacqueline says:
    3rd April 2008 at 9:17 pm

    I pre-ordered the book from Amazon UK (they don’t sell here in the states) and finally got it a few days ago. As a woman of a certain age, I am certainly devouring it (I have read all of your other books). However, it is depressing. There is no chance of hitting La Priairie for me. I’m looking forward to more mainstream tips on keeping up one’s chin (pun intended).
    PS I was heartened to read a balanced account re face lifts, surgery and botox. I have no interest in injecting poison into my body and I have seen too many “Joan Rivers” wide eyed weird looking people to even consider a face lift so I wind up spending a fortune on skin cream and facials. I once spent $600 in an hour on Darphin at Bergdoff’s in NYC and then went to Paris the following year and bought another $500 worth of Darphin. Didn’t work any better than Olay.

  • Jacques says:
    3rd April 2008 at 10:24 pm

    How come I haven’t received mine? The French postal service again?
    Jacques

  • helena says:
    4th April 2008 at 9:41 am

    I have had complaints that comments are being rejected. Sorry about that. I have set it up so that you have to buy the book before you have a right to comment. Clever eh?
    No seriously, I am looking into this now, please don’t give up.
    Hx

  • snusmormor says:
    4th April 2008 at 2:26 pm

    I had my copy delivered the day of publication and that was the Italian postal service!

  • Andrea says:
    5th April 2008 at 2:11 am

    I just ordered your new book on Amazon UK. I live in the USA and couldn’t find your book over here. I’m looking forward to reading it as I really enjoyed “All You Need to Be Impossibly French” and “More, More French Please”!

    Have you thought about a book signing tour in the US?

  • helena says:
    5th April 2008 at 6:16 am

    Hello Andrea
    Thanks for buying the book and I hope you enjoy it. A book signing tour in the US would be great, To Hell is with the publishers of All You Need etc now so fingers crossed that they will buy it and I can come over.
    Hx

  • Pollyvousfrancais says:
    15th April 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Any book signings planned for Paris? (I hope I haven’t missed one…)

  • helena says:
    16th April 2008 at 6:43 am

    Hello Polly – not so far but I will keep you posted Hx

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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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