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The definition of sex

23rd January 2007 by Helena 1 Comment  

Bea.jpgCarrying on the lust theme, I heard an interesting definition of sex as we drove home from our weekend in Uzes on Sunday. Bea (pictured left) was busy telling Olivia that she had had sex with her best friend Manon. As you can imagine, I stopped map-reading pretty rapidly to listen.

“Oh yes,” she said casually. “Manon and I have had sex.”

“No you haven’t,” said her older and wiser sister. “Sex is to get all naked and to kiss on the lips for like an hour.”

Sounds exhausting…..

The conversation then turned to what we had most liked about Uzes. Olivia liked the “magic scarf” we bought her, Leo liked the truffle-hunting pig, I liked the lunch we had on Saturday in the main square, Rupert liked the wine we had with lunch on Saturday in the main square. And Bea?

“Can I say you what I liked?” she asked (they still haven’t got the difference between say and tell). “I didn’t like anything.” Then she spent the rest of the journey asleep, only waking up when we turned up our drive to sing a song about the joys of being home.

Maybe next time we’ll leave her with Manon, or on second thoughts, maybe not!

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2007


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One thought on The definition of sex

  • mary says:
    24th January 2007 at 12:07 pm

    Sadly Bea has lost her best friend Manon. They’re off to live in Uzes to try some of the lovely truffles and find Manon a boy to snog. Nothing personal you understand Helena, this is for her own sexual wellbeing and her father’s peace of mind;
    Manon’s Mummy

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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

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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