- Hardcover: 496 pages
- Publisher: John Murray (1 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719566681
- ISBN-13: 978-0719566684
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 149,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘The fairy godmother doling out advice is the eminently stylish Lucia van der Post, who manages never to patronise her reader or – as other guides do – write as though she has been lobotomised . . . Her tips on simple but treacherously difficult things like how best to wear black are vital reading’
'With no-nonsense bravura she filters out the rubbish and highlights the ways to age glamorously, dress chicly, entertain fabulously, be a supportive and warm friend, mother and wife . . . Insightful, practical and poignant'
(Easy Living )'Poised, elegant and idiosyncratic, Lucia is the grande dame of style . . . Good advice was never so glam'
(Eve )'Finishing school in a book'
(Daily Mail/ Weekend )'If the word elegance touches you in a deep, primal place, then this book will do it for you . . . this book is soaked in the essence of van der Post, heady but grounded with earthy undertones'
(Good Housekeeping )'Much-adored journalist crafts wise words about fashion, fun and family'
(Daily Candy )'A lot of information packed into this single volume, from how to dress for your age to the author's pick of the best cleansers and moisturizers available'
(Sainsbury's Magazine )'Some tips are common sense while others are authoritative gems of insight. The Financial Times sage avoids being patronising, and offers an entertaining read, even if many tips are achievable only with a good wage'
(The Big Issue )Easy Living
`With no-nonsense bravura she filters out the rubbish and highlights the ways to age glamorously, dress chicly, entertain fabulously, be a supportive and warm friend, mother and wife . . . Insightful, practical and poignant'
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not what it says on the cover,
By Mina Murdoch "bookworm" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: Lessons in Grace and Elegance (Hardcover)
From the title I would have expected to read about some valuable life lessons, or at the very least some wise words. Disappointingly, nothing whatsoever of that nature could be found between the beautifully illustrated covers.Basically a glorified shopping guide for the very well to do, Lucia Van Der Post comes across as shallow, snobbish and clueless. Statements like "It is almost always the woman who benefits most from a marriage" in her tiny section on marriage left me feeling incredulous at this womans extraordinary naivety and lack of insight.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
How to be Lucia Van Der Post,
By Abbi Rouse (St Peter Port, Guernsey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: Lessons in Grace and Elegance (Hardcover)
It's not a bad book, I happily read it through in a few sittings, but my jaw did drop occasionally. Like at the section on presents that seems to start at around the £500 mark and go up to splashing half a billion on a private island for a weekend!For a book supposedly about things one's mother should tell one, I was also suprised at the vast amount on being a grandmother, and yet the brisk line about being a mother. And there are too many sections where "cheap treats" are listed as things the rest of us save up for. And shops listed as "budget" that I find beyond mine! I enjoyed the prose, but I think she would have been better writing an autobiography about a rich and glamorous life the rest of us can only dream of. Instead we have a how-to book making assumptions that the rest of us only lack the glamour, not the vast riches necessary to attain it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
For advice on shopping in London...,
By MN "MN" (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: Lessons in Grace and Elegance (Hardcover)
How this address book of shops in London was ever printed is a mystery. Tips like, try the High Street as well as designer stores, brighten up an old sofa with a new throw, plastic surgery worked for me! The clear message is to be chic you must shop in London. If you are unsure, check out the picture of the author on the inside jacket. If that is what you call stylish... happy reading.
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