{"product_id":"black-coffee-and-red-lipstick-alexandra-shulman-9781846017780","title":"Black Coffee and Red Lipstick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new collection of thought-provoking and engaging memoir-based essays from columnist, commentator and Sunday Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Shulman, the longest serving Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Alexandra Shulman:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Self-deprecating and stylish, this is sure to become a classic.\" — Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alexandra Shulman's style is unaffected, immediate and hilariously dry. She's brilliant at observing everyday feelings in a joy-sparking turn of phrase.\" — Helena Bonham Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoast Chicken and Red Lipstick is a collection of essays that weave ideas about our domestic and daily life — hence the roast chicken — with thoughts on style and the way we present ourselves — hence the red lipstick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt combines anecdotes and observations from Alexandra Shulman's 25 years spent editing British Vogue and her current life as a freelance writer and commentator. She draws on her experiences as a magazine editor but also a mother, daughter, sibling, girlfriend, housekeeper and lover of shopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexandra left her job at Vogue in 2017 to embark on a different way of life and while this is in no way a book of self-discovery it does touch on the question of things or patterns of behavior that make us who we are?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays will be a mixture of ideas from her quest for the perfect eyeliner, to why picnics are so delightful. How it is that men and women see different things in the home — is there male pattern blindness? — to why our hair matters so much to us. Friendship, siblings, gardening and grey hair will also be explored with Alexandra's characteristic wit and incisiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616952582432,"sku":"9781846017780","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781846017780_3103703.jpg?v=1793854976","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/black-coffee-and-red-lipstick-alexandra-shulman-9781846017780","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}