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Letting Go of the Glitz

The True Story of One Woman's Struggle to Live the Simple Life in Chel
  • ISBN-13: 9781845901424
  • Publisher: CROWN HOUSE PUBLISHING
    Imprint: ANGLO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
  • By Julia Stephenson
  • Price: AUD $27.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2009
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 126.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 232g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Memoirs [BM]
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""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 a 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 Party at the general election and begins to convert her flat into the first carbon-neutral dwelling in Sloane Square. Giving up her usual dating fodder of Old Etonians and bankers she embarks on a tempestuous love affair with her builder.

Who wants to be driven around in a Porsche when you can be ferried about in a spacious white van that runs on waste cooking oil?

Life is so much better in every way when you let go of the glitz.

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