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The lady of the lake

21st August 2009 by Helena 6 Comments  

While we were still at the lakeside hotel in the Savoie last week Olivia and I had an interesting conversation.

“Mummy,” she began. “Not that you’re very old, but when you die would you like to be buried or burned?”

“I think probably burned,” I said. “But can I have lunch first?”

She thought for a moment. “Yes, but where do we scatter your ashes?” She looked around her. “How about here?” she suggested. “I know, I will throw you in the lake. You’ll like that, you like swimming.”

Here is a picture of me with Bea on said lake. I hope I won’t be swimming with the fishes too soon.

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Tomorrow we head back to the Savoie for our last week of holiday. We have rented a little cottage, the same one as last year, called La Clementine which is two minutes from THE house and ten minutes from the lake. On Tuesday we see the house inside, but meanwhile here is the exterior and view of the tennis court. You can’t tell me that’s not beautiful, whatever the weather….

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Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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6 thoughts on The lady of the lake

  • Anna says:
    21st August 2009 at 2:56 pm

    It’s beautiful! Hope you get it! (Lovely photo of you two, too!)

  • Gail says:
    21st August 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Beautiful Helena! The view with the tennis court reminds me of the Rockies in Colorado where we have a place and it is lovely there all seasons! Fingers crossed!!

  • mimi says:
    22nd August 2009 at 12:46 am

    Wow, it’s not just beautiful, it’s big too!
    The saying in our family “what’s for you won’t go by you” is one that I applied when we (I) were (was) desperate to get our present home. We needed to sell first, and 11 months after first looking at this, we got it! In the meantime it was “sale agreed” 3 times to other people , but each time it fell through and waited for us!
    I hope you don’t have such a bumpy journey to your perfect home.

  • Phillip Vanderwarker says:
    22nd August 2009 at 10:30 pm

    Glad your having a great time, still looking fabulous, miss you!

  • Jennifer says:
    24th August 2009 at 2:23 am

    Your legs look awesome.

  • Melissa Jackson says:
    28th August 2009 at 5:13 am

    This is divinity. So beautiful.

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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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