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The Ambassador's Wife's Tale
Julia Miles
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Description for The Ambassador's Wife's Tale
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
Who really looks after British interests abroad? Behind the pomp of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, another powerful force is busily but discreetly propping up the image of UK plc. For 28 years, Julia was a diplomatic spouse, juggling a growing family while supporting the demands of her husband’s role. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, she reveals the realities of life as an ambassador’s wife, from food shortages to terrorist incidents to rubbing shoulders with the Queen, Mrs Thatcher and George Best – and rubbing knees with Mikhail Gorbachev. Light-hearted in style, The Ambassador’s Wife Tale has a serious ... Read more
Who really looks after British interests abroad? Behind the pomp of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, another powerful force is busily but discreetly propping up the image of UK plc. For 28 years, Julia was a diplomatic spouse, juggling a growing family while supporting the demands of her husband’s role. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, she reveals the realities of life as an ambassador’s wife, from food shortages to terrorist incidents to rubbing shoulders with the Queen, Mrs Thatcher and George Best – and rubbing knees with Mikhail Gorbachev. Light-hearted in style, The Ambassador’s Wife Tale has a serious ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eye Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Much Wenlock, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903070901
SKU
V9781903070901
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-12
About Julia Miles
Julia Miles has worked as a social worker, probation officer and psychotherapist, but her most prominent role has been as a diplomat's wife. She married Oliver Miles in 1968, and accompanied him on diplomatic postings to Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Athens and Libya, where he was ambassador during the diplomatic crisis following the murder in London of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. Their ... Read more
Reviews for The Ambassador's Wife's Tale
`Suspenseful and gripping...the last days of the Libya posting are as breathless as scenes in the Oscar-winning film Argo’ Daily Mail, `Julia Miles describes with accuracy as well as with fine humour the varied, challenging and daunting tasks that wives of diplomats have to manage, often under very difficult circumstances’ Express Tribune