Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba (Inscribed Copy???)

Osment, Jeff

ISBN 10: 0992708265 / ISBN 13: 9780992708269

Published by Lush, 2018

About this Item

About the book: Hardcover. No jacket, as issued. Book may or may not be inscribed (see photos) by Mark Constantine, on Sigmund Freud quote page. Book is in very good condition with mild wear. Additional photos available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 003657

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba (Inscribed Copy???)
• Publisher: Lush
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992708265
• ISBN 13: 9780992708269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Non-Authorial Inscription
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Autographed
  • Biography & Memoir
  • Business

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Synopsis

When a TV interviewer asked Lush co-founder Mark Constantine OBE what motivated him, the head of the GBP1 billion global cosmetics retailer Lush answered, `his entrepreneur's wound'. Mark had been abandoned by his father as a baby and he had spent the rest of his life trying to impress a man who had disappeared in Kenya in 1954. Fifty eight years later, on Mark's sixtieth birthday, his lifelong friend, Jeff Osment, whom he had known since Cub Scouts, presented Mark with his lost family history. Jeff had spent nine months secretly tracing the Constantine family tree, looking for information that might uncover the whereabouts of Mark's father and whether he was still alive. Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba tells the story of Mark and Jeff growing up together. From being the biggest product supplier to The Body Shop, to his failed mail order business Cosmetics To Go, to the rise of Lush, this book will take readers on a journey through Mark's life in business as Jeff also sets out to find Mark's missing father. From the sleepy Dorset coast to a nuclear facility in South Africa, friendships will be forged, perfume made and the past uncovered.