Diplomatic Baggage

By Brigid Keenan,

Book cover of Diplomatic Baggage: The Adventures of a Trailing Spouse

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When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put…

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1 author picked Diplomatic Baggage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Up-and-coming fashion journalist Brigid Keenan threw in a promising career to marry – then follow – a European Union diplomat around the world on a series of diplomatic postings in exotic locales.

This is as funny a book as I’ve read in years. When I passed it on to my own spouse (who gamely accompanied me on six postings as a “dependent” from Mexico to South Sudan), I watched her nodding silently in amusement and recognition at one episode after another.

But it’s a serious account, too. The author constantly has to re-invent herself so as to make her life…

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