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Something to look forward to…..

27th October 2010 by Helena 4 Comments  

Today, as I sat in a traffic jam on the way to the gym, I decided that what is good about life right now is that there is a lot to look forward to.

It is Bea’s 10th birthday, and this afternoon she is coming to work and then we are going shopping. Tomorrow I am going to lunch at the Burj Al Arab (where Rooney is staying) and tomorrow evening I collect my little Olive. She will tell me how the world should be run for the hour’s journey home, so I will be much wiser.

Friday morning Leonardo has his rugby-playing tournament debut (he made the B team, here he is, on the left at the back in the black baseball cap) and then we have Bea’s birthday party. OK, so maybe I’m not looking forward to that one so much, but she is.

I have just received an invitation from the British Ambassador here to meet the Queen when she comes over in November, added to which I am going to the opening of Ferrari World on Saturday. And we get paid today….

I guess there are worse things to think about in a traffic jam….

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010


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4 thoughts on Something to look forward to.....

  • Antonia says:
    29th October 2010 at 2:33 am

    Was in Paris last week, and I re read “two lipsticks and a lover” while passing time in cafes and in the Tuileries. Everything you wrote about passed before my eyes…..so true !

  • Kate says:
    31st October 2010 at 10:19 am

    Did Leo play?? I thought there was a week of mourning?? Helena – could you give me the name of the travel editor for the paper? Thanks.

  • helena says:
    31st October 2010 at 10:02 pm

    No, the week of mourning seems to have been out to one side! The match was postponed for a day. Travel Ed is Rosemary Behan.

  • Kate says:
    8th November 2010 at 6:56 am

    Thanks!

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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

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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