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Thrilling? It will be….

5th November 2009 by Helena 7 Comments  

This week has been mainly about recovering from last. It all seemed very empty and mundane with the glamour of the Formula 1 gone…but all that is about to change.

This evening the children and I are off to Dubai to see Navi. For those of you who haven’t heard of Navi, he is the world’s most successful Michael Jackson lookalike/impersonator. I interviewed him and must say he was charming. As the interview was on the phone I can’t tell you how much like the King of Pop he looks or not, but I will tell you all after this evening.

Tomorrow night I am going to a big party at my friends Noch and Bruce’s house. Noch is one of my oldest (not in age) friends here and one of the reasons I like it here so much more than France. This is a woman who laughs, drinks, eats and sings along to bad pop songs with me. So everything a French woman is not. Added to which she speaks English, another huge advantage. In fact she is English, but English colonial, so more amusing than most.

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Anyway the idea of the party is that we all come dressed as the thing we wanted to be when we were growing up. After much thinking I have decided to go as Audrey Hepburn, partly because I did always want to be her but also because my view of fancy dress is that you should wear what makes you look good and no one can ever look bad in black and white. What would you go as? I guess I won’t have to ask Navi that question if I meet him this evening…..

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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7 thoughts on Thrilling? It will be....

  • Phillip Vanderwarker says:
    6th November 2009 at 10:11 am

    As a recall from many photographs, you have much of the elfin profile of the divine but sadly late Ms Hepburn, so I can imagine that you will look as simply charming and elegant as was her forte. Have fun x

  • helena says:
    6th November 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Thank you! Am planning my outfit Hx

  • kirafashion says:
    6th November 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Hello Helena,

    My name is Kira Aderne and I am blogger at this address below. I just read your book this week and I am fascinated by your French discoveries and book language. Congratulations for the brilliant work!

    Many kisses from Brazil,

    Kira Aderne
    http://www.kirafashion.com.br

  • helena says:
    6th November 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Thank you Kira
    Hx

  • Amber Lee says:
    7th November 2009 at 4:11 am

    I tried and tried to think of what I wanted to be when I was growing up…and came up with nothing. I think I was one of those few kids who had no clue what they wanted to do except for the very moment they were in. Unless being world dictator counts.

  • Cate Jumeirah says:
    7th November 2009 at 5:12 pm

    English colonial, nothing better. One of the best aspects of life in the Emirates is the interesting friends we make. And people do make the place. Enjoy.

    ps: absolutely loved the piece on Prince Andrew and so many, many friends have said the same. Well done.

  • helena says:
    7th November 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Thank you Cate that’s lovely to hear, am now looking for next big story…tough one to follow.
    Hx

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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. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

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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