Helena Frith Powell writes the French Mistress column in The Sunday Times about living in France. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
She is the author of More France Please, we’re British, a book published in November 2004 by Gibson Square Books about her experiences in France. She is also the author of a book about French women called Two Lipsticks and a Lover published in October 2005 by Gibson Square Books. The paperback was published by Penguin in the US in December 2006 under the title All You Need to be Impossibly French. The paperback in the UK was published by Arrow in February 2007. It was also published in Russia, Thailand and China during 2007. It was published in France in March 2008 under the title So Chic!
She is also the author of a memoir called Ciao Bella, published by Gibson Square in October 2006. Her latest book about called To Hell in High Heels was published by Arrow in April 2008 and is all about how to age well.
Her new book, The Viva Mayr Diet, will be published by Harper Collins in May 2009.
Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years. She now lives in Abu Dhabi with her husband Rupert and three children Olivia, Bea and Leonardo. She works as a staff writer for The National Magazine there.
