“With flashes of Nancy Mitford wit … Brigid Keenan is as skittish as a kitten with needle claws, as stricken as a deer in headlights, and as smart as a cage of monkeys.”
The Times
“Keenan, I suspect, was quite possibly put on this planet with the express purpose of writing.”
Katie Hickman, Sunday Times
“A new comic genius – the sort that can make you laugh out loud three or four times a page.”
William Dalrymple
This memoir is a fabulous book to read with your reading group.
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.
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