Coronet Among the Weeds

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 Charlottes adventures are more than sufficiently diverting: whether shes bouffing up her hair to try and pass herself off as a beatnik, hurtling down the Champs Elyses 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, Binghams 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 isnt what it might be looking for love in all the wrong places.