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Those wild New Yorkers….

22nd April 2010 by Helena 4 Comments  

Despite my new high-powered role I still have time to watch films and TV shows on my bed with the girls. The other night we watched Vicky Christina Barcelona. A great film and how beautiful is Scarlett? Luminously beautiful I thought.

“Did you see,” asked Olivia afterwards, “that all three of them kissed and went to bed together?”

“I did,” I replied, trying to sound casual, slightly mortified that she had noticed. “Most unusual, wasn’t it?”

“It’s called triplets,” she explained confidently. “It happens a lot in New York.”

So now I know……

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010


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4 thoughts on Those wild New Yorkers....

  • Cate Jumeirah says:
    22nd April 2010 at 8:30 pm

    A gem of a film. I love all his work, including the darker, more complex pieces. (Have you seen Celebrity?) Though Manhattan is without rival my desert island film.

  • Amber Lee says:
    30th April 2010 at 8:51 am

    Oh that’s cute 🙂 I haven’t heard of that movie, but it could be because I have no time to do anything but school and work!

  • Cate Jumeirah says:
    30th April 2010 at 7:11 pm

    Hi Amber (Helena, I hope it’s OK to correspond with another poster via the blog?). You live in the US? It’s just that those of us outside – especially Europeans – have long been under the impression that Allen’s films are more popular outside the US than in, which may account for the fact that you haven’t heard of Vicky Christina.

  • Johanna says:
    8th May 2010 at 12:44 am

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona is something that definitely divides couples… We were watching it the other day with my husband, and the conversation went a bit like this:
    Me: What a wonderful movie.
    Hubby: What? This? Are you serious?
    Me: Lovely smooth atmosphere.
    Hubby: Dear Lord, this is wannabe-artistic-crap.
    Me: Isn’t Barcelona beautiful?
    Hubby: It’s ok. But don’t expect these Javier Bardem-like painters to pop up and ask you to sleep with them.
    Me: And Scarlett and Penelope, both amazing. I almost understand the attraction of threesome.
    Hubby: Penelope? This creepy woman, clearly with some serious issues.
    On and on and on…

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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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