Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me

Lucia Van Der Post has been writing for decades and I'm so glad I got to see her work in print - since I'm not much a peruser of The Financial Times  or  The Times of London. Her writing is glib and informative and never ever pushy. This is seriously my kind of book!

"Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me; A Guide To Living With Impeccable Grace and Style".  Has all kinds of advice from what kinds of clothes to wear to which skin products work to where you can find nice stuff for cheap prices (oh yes, she mentions Target more than once) and where you can find outrageous stuff for outrageous prices ($40,000 for a made-for-you perfume, anyone?).  It's like having 368 pages of a girly magazine that you'll never want to throw away. 

She goes into love and marriage (I appreciated her views) and keeping a home as well as the style section (I've only gotten through part 1 and a bit of part 2 - couldn't wait to blog about it!) and I've started picking it up each evening with a highlighter to mark favorite quotes and passages.  It's so much fun!