The FiFi Report 250

Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female by Sarah Vine,Tania Kindersley

“This a book for women who never got around to perfecting the art of domestic divinity but would quite like to be able to cook supper for six without having a nervous breakdown; who never quite mastered Cosmo’s 101 ways to please your man, but don’t want the embarrassment, not to say inconvenience, of him running off with a 19-year-old Russian supermodel. It’s your mother, your best friend, your guru and your shrink wrapped up in book form, with jokes.It’s the antidote to every stupid, boring, reductive magazine article you’ve ever read, or every silly, hair-twirling, chick lit confection about girls called Arabella who marry bankers and live in Gstaad. It’s for women who love their children but don’t want them to run their lives; and for women who love their lives and won’t have them run by children. It’s about revising expectations, exploding myths and generally dealing with all that life, love and other people have to throw at you.” Love it.
£8.24 www.amazon.co.uk Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (19 Feb 2009)