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Home again

19th May 2009 by Helena 5 Comments  

I had a great time. The other people on the press trip were fabulous fun. I haven’t laughed so much for years.
It was tough: three countries in four days, and all that shopping, as well as luxury hotels and slap-up meals, but what’s a girl to do? I have returned home with a suitcase full of clothes and lots of happy memories, especially of Ireland which I am now totally mad about, even if it does rain ALL the time.

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The shopping gang: Stefanie, Alex (both in stripes), me (with eyes shut, just for a change), Laura the lovely PR girl, Sean (tall bloke, so well brought up I am thinking of sending Leo to live with his mother and Sudeshna.  The other two ladies are from the German outlet village.
Collecting the children from school was like Christmas morning. They looked gorgeous. I was almost floored by the hugs and kisses. Bea even wrote me a poem:

Dear Mummy

I missed you so much

You shine like a star in the sky

I’m your littlest daughter in the world

And I love you you’re the best

Mummy in the world

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I am back at work feeling a little dazed but it’s great to be home with my little prince, my princess and my poetess. And Rupes of course, who is being Mr Perfect.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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5 thoughts on Home again

  • mimi says:
    19th May 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Helena, I’m really glad you liked Ireland, hoep they gave you a decent “faílte” (welcome). Please do tell what you bought in Kildare village, and what you thought of it.
    Bea’s poem is just wonderful, you should enter it for Eurochild Book of Poetry, mimi

  • helena says:
    20th May 2009 at 7:30 am

    I thought Kildare Village was the BEST of all the villages. I bought sooo much including (from LK Bennet for TOTAL of 134 euros) two dresses (one silk, one linen) a jacket, a skirt and a pair of high heels – amazing. Alos went to Myla and the Style Studio where I bought masses. I am coming back I hope to do piece on Arab-owned horses there so will visit it again.
    Hx

  • ruth says:
    20th May 2009 at 8:38 am

    and it hasn’t stopped raining…!

  • mimi says:
    21st May 2009 at 12:45 am

    Thanks, Helena, that’s settled then, I’m going there this weekend and breaking my vow of no shopping for a year, I’ll blame you- made me do it! http://www.eurochild.net is address for bea’s poem, mimi

  • helena says:
    21st May 2009 at 4:09 am

    Thanks Mimi and enjoy the shopping!
    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. 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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