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Book SynopsisThe deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the horrors of The Season. Though desperately on the hunt for a Superman to call her own, the country house ball circuit seems to yield nothing but an inexhaustible crop of charmless, chinless Weeds. But Charlotte’s adventures are more than sufficiently diverting: whether she’s bouffing up her hair to try and pass herself off as a beatnik, hurtling down the Champs Elysées on the back of a Vespa, or accidentally sticking her eyelids together with eyelash glue while at modelling school, her experiments in coming-of-age are never short of intrigue – and disaster. Published in 1963 when she was just nineteen, Bingham’s sparkling memoir of her trials and travails became an international bestseller. From its pages emerges a deeply lovable and relentlessly optimistic young woman – for all that her shorthand isn’t what it might be – looking for love in all the wrong places.
Trade ReviewPraise for MI5 and Me: 'A
fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 *
A stone-cold comic classic … Joyfully silly * Tatler *
Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh.
Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times *
Hilarious and candid … Filled with period detail, Bingham’s memoir is
entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *
Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian *
Much fun it is …
Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator *
A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carré world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement *
One funny story follows another …
You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *
