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The Naked Pianist

8th May 2009 by Helena 13 Comments  

There is good news and bad news. The bad news is I have had a terrible review of my new book on Amazon. The reviewer says there is no way the diet could be carried out at home. Which is exactly the one thing we all worked so very hard to achieve.

The good news is that To Hell in High Heels has been sold abroad. To Poland to be precise. They are going to print 5,000 copies and give me an advance. It is not America, but it’s a start.

 

Today is Friday. The girls have gone ice-skating in Al Ain with their Arab family (Ali from next door, his wife and eight daughters). Rupert is watching the cricket and Leo is playing the piano – naked. Maybe he could start a trend. A TV show and several best-selling books. I bet he would get better reviews than his mother.

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13 thoughts on The Naked Pianist

  • Louise says:
    8th May 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Hi Helena,
    I got your book last week and loved it. I am halfway through my 14 day plan as i am hitting the beach in a few weeks and so far the plan is working!! I have left my review on Amazon and I am sure all your other happy readers will do too xx

  • helena says:
    8th May 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Thanks Louise, am thrilled to hear it is working, keep going, I promise it’s worth it. I am still sticking to the principles almost a year on.
    Hxx

  • Elisabeth Loesch says:
    8th May 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Don’t let this swallow ruin your summer! Critics are usually frustrated writers. I was recently given a pass on one of my scripts by a script analyst. I got smashed and for a fee. That script is currently on the semi finalists list of the British Feature Screenplay Competition. The winning script is produced.

    That sort of things tells you one thing: those who can’t do, teach and those who can’t teach, criticize.

    I’m ordering your book.

    Best

    Elisabeth

  • helena says:
    8th May 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks Elisabeth, and best of luck with the semi-finals. You are right of course, hell hath no fury like a rejected author. As I know, there is nothing more dangerous than a frustrated (and unpublished) writer – I was horrible….
    Hx

  • Denise says:
    12th May 2009 at 2:25 am

    Oh Helena! The moment “Hell in High Heels’ crossed my radar I made my husband get me one! I’m eating much less sugar and drinking much more green tea than I did before, thanks to you!
    Don’t let one bitter little troll get you down!

  • Donna M says:
    12th May 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Helena,

    Having ‘discovered’ you when I purchased More, More France Please, I would like to tell you that Amazon kindly delivered TL&AL and THIHH this morning. Take heart that I and many others adore your writing. I won’t be buying your new book as I don’t need to diet (!) but I really would if I needed to!!! You’ll forget about the review when you embark on your ‘shopping’ trip – there is NOTHING like retail therapy after all, is there?!

    Fondest,

    Donna

  • Josephine says:
    1st June 2009 at 9:46 am

    Well I badly need to diet and so I will order your book. Sorry to hear about the bad review. I shall alsp post a good one for you when I read it. Is that Leo? He is adorable! All your children are beautiful!

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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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