Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female - Hardcover

Vine, Sarah; Kindersley, Tania

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762438819 ISBN 13: 9780762438815

Publisher: Running Press Adult, 2010

Synopsis

This smart and frank collection distills the trials and triumphs of being a woman, all in a gifty volume filled with whimsical fullcolour illustrations. In 15 subject-driven chapters relevant to women of all ages, authors Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine's essays cover topics ranging from feminism to face cream, motherhood to money, and politics to perfection. Titles like The Danger of Romantic Love," Why There is No Such Thing as a Guilt-Free Working Mother," How Not to Go Mad," parts 1 and 2, and Why There is No Excuse for Bad Sex" develop into a tuned and sophisticated voice that is at once a mother, best friend, and shrink, revising expectations, bashing stereotypes, and illuminating the experience of life. This is the ultimate sophisticated gift for any woman of any age. Both young and old will find familiarity in the admonitions, recollections, and powerful advice of two writers who have done it all. This brilliant feat of realism," so called by the Sunday Times Magazine , gently guides the way without claiming to have all the answers.

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Review:

October 15, 2009, Plum Sykes, author of "Society Girls," "Bergdorf Blondes," and "The Debutante Divorcee"
"This book is the bestfriend I always wish I had: funny, witty, intelligent."
October 15, 2009, Lulu Guinness, British fashion designer and author of "Put on Your Pearls, Girls!"
"It's simply brilliant: buy it and give it to all your friends"
"Harper s Bazaar"
From feminism to face cream, "Backwards in High Heels" is a witty collection of essays about the joy and pain of being a lady. "

October 15, 2009, Plum Sykes, author of Society Girls, Bergdorf Blondes, and The Debutante Divorcée
"This book is the best friend I always wish I had: funny, witty, intelligent."

October 15, 2009, Lulu Guinness, British fashion designer and author of Put on Your Pearls, Girls!
"It's simply brilliant: buy it and give it to all your friends"

Harper's Bazaar
"From feminism to face cream, Backwards in High Heels is a witty collection of essays about the joy and pain of being a lady."

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0762438819
• ISBN 13: 9780762438815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392