Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: A Guide to Living with Impeccable Grace and Style

Lucia van der Post has dispensed advice on living stylishly for more than three decades, and her common sense, confidence, and wit have garnered her legions of fans worldwide. A bestseller in the United Kingdom, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me offers—in van der Post's distinctively warm, aphoristic style—everything a woman needs to know about living well, with elegance and glamour. Leaving no aspect of a woman's life unconsidered, sections include How to Work and Have a Life; Cheap Chic; Ten Easy Main Courses; How to Wear Black; and Love, Marriage, and Happiness.

Lucia van der Post, the founding editor of the Financial Times.s How to Spend It magazine, writes a weekly style column for the Times of London. She lives in London.