Diplomatic Baggage
Publisher: John Murray
Published: February 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780719567254
Subjects: Travel writing; Travel
Description: Already used to mixing in a rarefied circles as a fashion journalist for the Sunday Times, Keenan married a diplomat, and found herself obliged to present a spruce and hospitable front as she followed her husband from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. Endlessly entertaining anecdotes share the difficulties of hosting a successful buffet in Syria when the whole nation is in mourning, retaining one's writing career among the style cognoscenti while travelling through regions that are a few centuries behind the fashions of London, Paris and New York, and running a family home while dealing with the kind of brutal events and people that threaten the architecture of Damascus or the diplomatic tranquillity of Brussels.