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This is what I want for Christmas

15th December 2009 by Helena 6 Comments  

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Just in case you were wondering what to get me…..it’s the new Ferrari California. Apparently it’s very versatile. Although there isn’t much room for the kids. Oh well, never mind.

I wouldn’t mind it for my birthday either, which is tomorrow by the way. I plan to spend several hours in a spa and drink lots of pink champagne, though possibly not at the same time.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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6 thoughts on This is what I want for Christmas

  • Kate says:
    15th December 2009 at 6:20 pm

    Happy Birthday! Maybe you could get a trailer for the kids?

  • Katariina says:
    15th December 2009 at 6:38 pm

    Happy 30th! Though I am rather happy that I’m not your friend because finding a present for you would be real pain! :o)

  • helena says:
    15th December 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Thank you, and thank you too for the generous age you have given me. Actually thinking back to my 30th, it was pretty depressing. I was unmarried and childless. At least at the time I found it depressing, a few years on I might quite like it, if just for a day. As long as I had the Ferrari, obviously….
    Hx

  • Jennifer says:
    15th December 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Happy birthday!

    Your Christmas tree looks fabulous.

  • The Unexpected Traveller says:
    16th December 2009 at 9:30 am

    Happy Birthday!

    It sounds like an ace plan although you could, I suppose, drink lots of Spa and spend several hours in pink champagne. That’ll make for an unusual birthday …

    Best Wishes

    The Unexpected Traveller

  • Phillip Vanderwarker says:
    16th December 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Wishing you a simply wonderful and well deserved birthday, you did not specify a colour, so I cannot guarantee delivery in time.
    However may I use this opprtunity to wish you and all the family a splendiferous Christmas with a satisfying and better settled New Year.

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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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