Imagine if this was your Aunt? I can not wait to read this book. Here is a brief synopsis from the publisher Bloomsbury’s web site:
Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. From her early beginnings–a colorful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by Independence and Partition, then a return to dreary postwar England and on to a finishing school in Paris with daughters of presidents and princes–ordinary just wasn’t for her. 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 teamed up with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, chatted with Vidal Sassoon, drove around London in a minivan, covered the Paris Collections and was labeled a “Young Meteor” by the press. Though she was always trying to do her best, sometimes her enthusiasm–and naïveté–led to a succession of hilarious misadventures, like the time she turned up to report on the Vietnam war wearing a miniskirt . . .
And some of the reviews:
“A new comic genius–the sort that can make you laugh out loud three or four times a page.” – William Dalrymple,
“Brigid Keenan is as skittish as a kitten with needle claws . . . and as smart as a cage of monkeys. Brava!” – The Times
“Keenan, I suspect, was quite possibly put on this planet with the express purpose of writing.” – Katie Hickman, Sunday Times
“So funny and frank and moving.” – Deborah Moggach
It is out in the UK and you can pre-order it here in the USA on Amazon here
06/7/2016 | Posted by Eye Forward
Categories: Fashion
Tags: http://www.bloomsbury.com/, http://www.perryogden.com/
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