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Chastened: My Modern Adventure in Old-Fashioned Romance
Hephzibah Anderson
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Description for Chastened: My Modern Adventure in Old-Fashioned Romance
Paperback. A story of journalist Hephzibah Anderson's personal quest to stay chaste for a year, fusing month-by-month account of her personal challenge with an exploration of what sex means in the twenty-first-century western world. It unpicks our attitudes to relationships; and reconnects with the values of courtship and intimate friendship in our lives. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she's single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance?
This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love.
She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099532156
SKU
KNW0009255
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99-1
About Hephzibah Anderson
Hephzibah Anderson graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature and has worked as a journalist ever since. She was Fiction Editor at the Daily Mail until 2007, and wrote on debut fiction for the Observer for five years. She now works freelance as a critic, feature writer and broadcaster for various British and international outlets including Vogue, ... Read more
Reviews for Chastened: My Modern Adventure in Old-Fashioned Romance
This memoir of notches not carved is surprisingly readable, displaying a melancholy tenderness and candid self-awareness rarely found in confessional writing ... Chastened feels like a genuine attempt to find a solution to a loveless life, and articulates the thoughts of many single women with a purposeful freshness
Ariane Sherine
Observer
Her book is tender, clever, heartbreaking ... Read more
Ariane Sherine
Observer
Her book is tender, clever, heartbreaking ... Read more