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The beloved Sunday Times bestseller - a touching, hilarious, often
outrageous memoir of home-making and family adventures in the
world's furthest outposts 'Hilarious, and utterly beguiling - it's
a complete treat to be in Keenan's witty and open-hearted company'
Esther Freud 'Deliciously effervescent' Sunday Times 'Brigid writes
like a dream ... fabulous' Joanna Lumley 'Irresistible' Mail on
Sunday When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married
the love of her life in the late Sixties, she had little idea of
the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world
together. For he was a diplomat - and Brigid found herself the
smiling face of the European Union in locales ranging from
Kazakhstan to Trinidad, and asking herself questions she never
thought she'd have to ask. How do you throw a buffet dinner during
a public mourning period in Syria? Where do you track down dog fat
in Almaty? And how do you entertain guests in a Nepalese chicken
shed? Negotiating diplomatic protocol, difficult teenagers,
homesickness, frustrated career aspirations, witch doctors, and
giant jumping spiders, Brigid muddles determinedly through - with
no shortage of mishaps on the way. 'There are not many books that
have actually made me cry from laughing, but this is one of them'
Sunday Times
______________________ The hilarious, outrageously witty, and
surprisingly touching memoir about growing up in India and coming
of age in sixties London, by the author of Diplomatic Baggage
______________________ 'Charming' - The Times 'Magical and stylish'
- Daily Mail 'Wherever in the world she is writing from, her warmth
and her sharp observations won't fail to delight' - Financial Times
______________________ Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a
normal life. From her early beginnings - a colourful childhood in
India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, then
a return to dreary post-war England and on to a finishing school in
Paris with daughters of presidents and princes - ordinary didn't
seem to be her fate. When, as a ten-year-old, she overheard her
mother describe her as 'desperately plain', she decided then and
there that she had to rely on something different: glamour,
eccentricity, character, a career - anything, so as not to end up
at the bottom of the pile. And in classic Brigid style, she somehow
ended up with them all. Fate often gave Brigid a helping hand - in
the late fifties, in her teens, she landed a job as an assistant at
the Daily Express in London, and by the tender age of twenty-one
she was a Fashion Editor at the Sunday Times. It was the dawn of
the swinging sixties, and London was the place to be. Brigid worked
with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, had her hair cut by Vidal
Sassoon, drove around London in a mini-van, covered the Paris
Collections and was labelled a 'Young Meteor' by the press. Despite
always trying her hardest, Brigid's enthusiasm - and occasional
naivete - could lead to embarrassing moments, such as when she
turned up to report on the Vietnam war in a mini skirt ... Candid,
wickedly funny and surprisingly touching, Full Marks for Trying is
a coming-of-age memoir that will delight, entertain, and make you
cry with laughter. ______________________ 'So funny and frank and
moving' - Deborah Moggach 'Brightly funny ... adorably different,
and memory-sharp' - Saga
Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. From her
early beginnings - a colourful childhood in India brought to an
abrupt end by independence and partition, then a return to dreary
post-war England and on to a finishing school in Paris with
daughters of presidents and princes - ordinary didn't seem to be
her fate. When, as a ten-year-old, she overheard her mother
describe her as 'desperately plain', she decided then and there
that she had to rely on something different: glamour, eccentricity,
character, a career - anything, so as not to end up at the bottom
of the pile. And in classic Brigid style, she somehow ended up with
them all. Fate often gave Brigid a helping hand - in the late
fifties, in her teens, she landed a job as an assistant at the
Daily Express in London, and by the tender age of twenty-one she
was a Fashion Editor at the Sunday Times. It was the dawn of the
swinging sixties, and London was the place to be. Brigid worked
with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, had her hair cut by Vidal
Sassoon, drove around London in a mini-van, covered the Paris
Collections and was labelled a 'Young Meteor' by the press. Despite
always trying her hardest, Brigid's enthusiasm - and occasional
naivete - could lead to embarrassing moments, such as when she
turned up to report on the Vietnam war in a mini skirt ... Candid,
wickedly funny and surprisingly touching, Full Marks for Trying is
a coming-of-age memoir that will delight, entertain, and make you
cry with laughter.
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