Description
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the horrors of The Season. Though desperately on the hunt for a Superman to call her own, the country house ball circuit seems to yield nothing but an inexhaustible crop of charmless, chinless Weeds. But Charlotte's adventures are more than sufficiently diverting: whether she's bouffing up her hair to try and pass herself off as a beatnik, hurtling down the Champs Elysees on the back of a Vespa, or accidentally sticking her eyelids together with eyelash glue while at modelling school, her experiments in coming-of-age are never short of intrigue - and disaster. Published in 1963 when she was just nineteen, Bingham's sparkling memoir of her trials and travails became an international bestseller. From its pages emerges a deeply lovable and relentlessly optimistic young woman - for all that her shorthand isn't what it might be - looking for love in all the wrong places.
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller
About the Author
Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carre's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairsand Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com
Reviews
Praise for MI5 and Me: 'A fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 *
A stone-cold comic classic ... Joyfully silly * Tatler *
Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh. Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times *
Hilarious and candid ... Filled with period detail, Bingham's memoir is entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *
Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian *
Much fun it is ... Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator *
A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement *
One funny story follows another ... You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526608697
Author Ms Charlotte Bingham
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 141g
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller
About the Author
Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carre's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairsand Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com
Reviews
Praise for MI5 and Me: 'A fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 *
A stone-cold comic classic ... Joyfully silly * Tatler *
Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh. Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times *
Hilarious and candid ... Filled with period detail, Bingham's memoir is entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *
Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian *
Much fun it is ... Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator *
A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement *
One funny story follows another ... You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526608697
Author Ms Charlotte Bingham
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 141g
