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Our favourite book

12th October 2009 by Helena 10 Comments  

Someone I interviewed once said that the greatest gift you can give your children is a love of reading. I am happy to say that after years of reading to them, encouraging them to read (by paying them 50 pence for every book they finished) and leading by example, they have finally got it.

Last night Bea dived into bed with a great grin on her face clutching a book in French about a princess who wants to be a witch. I recognised that feeling of anticipation and happiness at the thought of time alone with a book. I have it, most recently with a PG Wodehouse book I just finished. They should prescribe PG Wodehouse for depression, better than any pills.

Olivia was reading Ferdinand to Leonardo which was another sight to fill a book-mad mother with joy. This is a book that both Rupert and I loved as children, I even remember it in Swedish.

barbie reads to leo
Meanwhile the house burglary saga goes on…turns out the stereo is missing and lots of DVDs and the TV in the kitchen too.

I just hope they haven’t taken any of our books….at least we had the foresight to bring Ferdinand with us.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009


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    13th October 2009 at 9:36 am

    The ever best thing you can give to your children is the love of reading, When I was child you can say that I was a book warmer. But in these days could not find time for these things.

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    13th October 2009 at 10:54 pm

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  • Paula says:
    15th October 2009 at 4:24 pm

    newsletter@americanpublicmedia.org

    I don’t know if this will work for you but it is P. G. Wodehouse’s birthday – well at least it is now in the US …

  • Helena says:
    15th October 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Thank you, how lovely. Happy Birthday PG
    Hx

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    I really love reading books. When I was a kid, I was really fond of reading books, Even up to till now I am fond of reading books. But since I have started my career. I can say that its really hard to find the time for reading the books.

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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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