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What is Diplomatic Baggage : The Adventures of a Trailing Spouse about?
Already used to mixing in a rarefied circles as a fashion journalist for the Sunday Times, Keenan married a diplomat, and found herself obliged to present a spruce and hospitable front as she followed her husband from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. Endlessly entertaining anecdotes share the difficulties of hosting a successful buffet in Syria when the whole nation is in mourning, retaining one's writing career among the style cognoscenti while travelling through regions that are a few centuries behind the fashions of London, Paris and New York, and running a family home while dealing with the kind of brutal events and people that threaten the architecture of Damascus or the diplomatic tranquillity of Brussels.
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Keenan, Brigid
- Publisher
- John Murray Pubs Ltd
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719567261
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Humor
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (341 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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