‘Makes you laugh out loud on public transport’ Daily Mail
‘A fun and breezy read’ Observer, Best summer books 2018
‘Astonishing’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
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A Coronet Among the Weeds
Debs, Beatniks and Me
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.
‘Fresh and funny’ Guardian
‘Droll, intelligent and attractive’ Sunday Times
‘A breathless deb’s Catcher in the Rye’ Tatler
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First published in Great Britain 2019
This electronic edition published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © Charlotte Bingham, 2019
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-5266-0868-0; TPB: 978-1-5266-0881-9; EBOOK: 978-1-5266-0879-6
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