Letting go of the glitz
Subtitle: the true story of one woman's struggle to live the simple life in Chelsea
By: Julia Stephenson
Publisher: Crown House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bancyfelin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781845903329; 9781845901424
Subjects: Social life and customs; Reference; Presidents & Heads of State; Political; Personal Memoirs; Royalty; Biography; Historical; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Manners and customs; Sustainable living; Rich & Famous
Description: Help! I'm Married Alive!Julia Stephenson, struggling to cope with life as a Surrey housewife, grimly welded to her electric floor polisher and fed up with her golf-addicted, BMW-driving husband, bolts to the fleshpots of London. Here she forges a new life as single girl about town in her Chelsea eyrie, a short walk from Peter Jones. Bemused to find herself an 'It-girl' life soon becomes a ritzy blur of parties, popping corks and flashbulbs, while handsome aristocratic boyfriends come and go. Realising she isn't cut out for this she reinvents herself as a femme serieuse representing the Green P.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: The good life goes horribly wrong ; Chapter 2: Spiritual shopping can damage your wealth; Chapter 3: Help, I've become an 'It-girl'!; Chapter 4: You don't have to shave your head to become a Buddhist; Chapter 5: The dating jungle; Chapter 6: No good deed goes unpunished; Chapter 7: Lemons are pretty good; Chapter 8: I'm trying to give up flying, really I am ; Chapter 9: A flirtation in the Far East; Chapter 10: My love life lifts off; Chapter 11: Tempted by a telecommunications tycoon.; title: Chapter 12: Electrosmog shockChapter 13: Cheese is good for you; Chapter 14: The joys of my wood-burning stove; Chapter 15: Green celebrity hubris; Chapter 16: Fortune favours the bold; Chapter 17: Carmageddon; Chapter 18: I'm a cyclist; title: don't hate me; Chapter 19: My Vogue moment; Chapter 20: Greenwash in Chelsea; Chapter 21: Protect me from what I want!; Chapter 22: Festive meltdown; Chapter 23: What's the point?; Epilogue; About the Author; Copyright.