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The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller 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.

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Praise for MI5 and Me: 'A fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 * A stone-cold comic classic … Joyfully silly * Tatler * Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh. Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times * Hilarious and candid … Filled with period detail, Bingham’s memoir is entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer * Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian * Much fun it is … Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator * A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carré world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement * One funny story follows another … You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *

Praise for MI5 and Me: 'A fun and breezy read * Observer, Best summer books 2018 * A stone-cold comic classic ... Joyfully silly * Tatler * Astonishing ... She still has all the exuberant delight of a teenager in telling stories to make herself and other people laugh. Long may she write -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times * Hilarious and candid ... Filled with period detail, Bingham's memoir is entertaining and extraordinary -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer * Sparky and larky -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian * Much fun it is ... Brilliant, sly, charming and flighty * Spectator * A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement * One funny story follows another ... You will be sure to find this book a most entertaining and enjoyable read * Country Life *

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Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carré's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairsand Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com

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