Full Marks for Trying: An Unlikely Journey from the Raj to the Rag Trade

by Brigid Keenan

Book Overview

Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. From her early beginnings--a colorful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by Independence and Partition, then a return to dreary postwar England and on to a finishing school in Paris with daughters of presidents and princes--ordinary just wasn't for her. When, as a ten-year-old, she overheard her mother describe her as desperately plain, she decided then and there that she had to rely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408852276
• ISBN13: 9781408852279
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"