Diplomatic Baggage is a touching, hilarious, often outrageous memoir of home-making and family adventures in the world’s furthest outposts.
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties she had little idea of the journey they would make around the world together. He was a diplomat, and Brigid found herself in locales ranging from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. How do you throw a buffet dinner during a public mourning period in Syria? Where do you track down dog fat in Almaty? And how do you entertain guests in a Nepalese chicken shed? Negotiating diplomatic protocol, difficult teenagers, homesickness, frustrated career aspirations, witch doctors and giant jumping spiders, Brigid determinedly muddles through – with no shortage of mishaps on the way.
‘Deliciously effervescent’ Sunday Times
‘Hilarious, and utterly beguiling – it’s a complete treat to be in Keenan's witty and open-hearted company’ Esther Freud
