Full Marks for Trying An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade Brigid Keenan author 9781408852309 Books
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Full Marks for Trying
Full Marks for Trying An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade Brigid Keenan author 9781408852309 Books
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Full Marks for Trying An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade Brigid Keenan author 9781408852309 Books Reviews
Brigid Keenan’s memoir is fab. It starts with her ‘technicolour’ upbringing in India up until the age of eight as the daughter of an army officer in the closing days of the Raj. Then back to the bleakness of post-war Blighty, rationing, ghastly food and, worst of all, being despatched to boarding school. It is the only downside to a thoroughly happy childhood, one that she says was “the exact opposite of a misery memoir”. How refreshing!
Brigid talks about ‘coming out’ – a different meaning then of course becoming a debutante was the upper middle-class route to marriage. It didn’t work for her. Having overheard her mother describing her middle daughter as ‘desperately plain’, Brigid determines to make something of herself. A starter job at Westminster Press leads to her becoming Fashion Editor of The Sunday Times at the ripe old age of twenty-one and then on to the late, great Nova (cover price in those days four shillings, now up to £80 on eBay). It was the era of Bailey, Quant, ‘The Shrimp’, Sassoon, a time that positively crackled with energy, excitement and possibility. Youth was - contemporary cliché klaxon - where it was at.
I completely fell in love with Brigid Keenan’s unfussy writing - she hits just the right note of self-deprecation without sounding remotely false. A bible of the sixties termed her one of the ‘Young Meteors’, she tells us rather proudly. She also shows loyalty to her friends and displays an abiding enjoyment of the follies of life. There are chuckles of recognition, sighs of lament for a bygone time, heaps of unlikely escapades. After one such, she writes “I can’t really believe I am writing this; sometimes now my younger self astonishes me.” (Same here.) Full Marks for Trying is a thoroughly enjoyable read and very warmly recommended. Full marks for succeeding, Brigid!
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