First published 2023
Anne Glenconner opens her life's wisdom vault in her ninth decade. The former debutante turned traveling salesman turned Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret offers frank lessons from an unpredictable journey. She draws from organizing lavish parties, managing grand estates, and camping in Mustique's jungle. Her royal tour duties and marriage to the unpredictable Lord Glenconner provide rich material. Glenconner confronts darker chapters too, including losing two sons and nursing another back to health. She transforms these experiences into practical wisdom and entertaining stories. The book delivers both hard-earned insights and the vintage storytelling that made her previous memoir a bestseller. Glenconner proves that life's unexpected turns, both tragic and comic, create the best teachers.
Genres: autobiography, memoir, non-fiction, biography-memoir
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, overcoming-adversity
Setting: Mustique
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
1 pages · Audio CD · Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing
Content warnings: child-death, terminal-illness