Love in a Warm Climate is out now, available in the 3 for 2 at both Waterstone’s and Smith’s. I urge you to buy it please, not only to see which character you think is based on whom (!) but to ensure I can afford to keep Leo in football boots, Olivia in laptops, Bea in chocolate biscuits and, most importantly, myself in matching underwear….
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. She writes a beauty blog www.beautyorbeast.uk.
Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as contributing regularly for newspapers and magazines, writing short stories and studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Smullö that will be published in spring 2020.
Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and came out in paperback in April 2018.
Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives between there and London with her husband Rupert and their three children.
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
I bought the book already on amazon.com. Unfortunately, it will take around month and a half for the book to reach NYC:( But it’s ok!:)
Hi H
Am looking forward to this new venture especially after our coffee last year in Knightsbridge so I will finally find out. We cannot have you without matching underwear can we & the children going without. Am really looking forward to reading this – watch this space. Love LA XXXX
Love in a warm climate:
I had this book on preorder and just finished reading it.
It is spirit lifting and entertaining, a feel good and heart warming book.
I found the book hard to put down.
I liked Sophie´s caracter from being funny, goodhearted hardworking woman who values familylife.
The book has Sophie`s story about marriage, children, divorce, moving to an other country and starting a new life.
Couldn`t stop laughing at fanny part´s of the story, like having a cat between legs when Sophie starts to look after herself better.
And having a French woman with to buy potions and lotions. I coulnd`t stop laughing when red what happpens bulangerie´s personal life and
all the stories of Sophies best friends.
The story describes French women`s attitudes towards love, sex and life in general. The allure of French women is made perfectly clear in this book.
I think the majority of women can easily imagine how devastated and humiliated Sophie was after finding woman´s bra from her husband`s bag. And how she survived.
The author describes Sophie`s caracter so well and lively, it feel`s like having Sophie as friend.
Now that I`ve finished the book I am hoping to read one day what shall happen next in Sophies life.
Thank you Helena, you have made a good work.