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St Tropez or bust?

13th December 2006 by Helena 6 Comments  

Our HouseMy amazon rating is holding up very well in the UK but sliding slightly in the US. This is notwithstanding a charming review by a C. Farley from Bakersfield in California who loves the book. Great taste those Californians. But amazon has paled into insignificance compared with my latest obsession. We are thinking about moving to St Tropez. This is one of those ideas that started as a ridiculous throw-away line and then took on a life of its own.

I have just been for the most glorious walk in the afternoon sun with my faithless hound Wolfie (he has at least three mistresses). The sun was low, the shadows long, the autumn colours warm and golden, the mountains in the distance hazy. I stood at the top of the hill I have pushed all my children up countless times in our old Silver Cross pram, looked over towards our house (see pic) and wondered how I could even think about giving it all up.

We would go to write a book about living there for a year so it wouldn’t be a permanent move. Or would it? Does one ever really come back? And is it good to get out of one’s comfort zone and go for an adventure or just plain mad?


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6 thoughts on St Tropez or bust?

  • Ella says:
    14th December 2006 at 8:27 pm

    Just plain mad! What would happen to Wolfie?

  • helena says:
    14th December 2006 at 8:31 pm

    That is the question…and not an easy one to answer. Whoever rented our house would have to look after him, as well as Max the cat. Anyway, it’s far from decided.

  • Arthur Burland says:
    18th December 2006 at 12:27 pm

    You must do what you want and feel you need to do. I am not convinced you would take to the people there. But you might. AB.

  • Juliette says:
    30th January 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Where you are seems like an enchanting place for the children to grow up. Do you really want to expose them to all of the Eurotrash that hang out on the Rivera?

  • helena says:
    31st January 2007 at 8:29 am

    No, I don’t think we do any more. Thinking about moving made us realise how much we love it here!

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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.

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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

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Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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