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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 SundayWhen 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
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When she married the love of her life in the late 1960s, Brigid Keenan was not prepared for the rollercoaster life she would experience, travelling round the world as the wife of a diplomat. In this book she recalls some of her most memorable experiences, including dealing with diplomats, witchdoctors and difficult teenagers.
Weight | 0.226 kg |
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Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.5 cm |
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Cover | Paperback |
Pages | xvi, 294 |
Language | English |
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Dewey | 327.2092 (edition:23) |
Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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