Top

We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy.

Diplomatic Incidents

On sale

12th May 2011

Price: £9.99

Select a format

Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781848542433

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world’s most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her – saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name just three – she wouldn’t have missed it for anything. Lessons learnt range from the practical (possessions belong either in the suitcase or the skip: storage is for wimps), to the truly useful (how to avoid the drinks party bore) and the truly bizarre (the episode with the goat . . .). Charming and witty, these hilarious tales of global misunderstsanding are illustrated with over seventy original line drawings.

What's Inside

Read More Read Less

Reviews

Daily Mail
'Charming . . . delightful, a collection of lively, jolly anecdotes [which] can be dipped into as and when you fancy. Cherry is smashing, high-spirited, fond of a good joke, and she can be blissfully rude'
John Lloyd
'Deliciously rude, scandalously funny and crammed with quite interesting bits'
Mail on Sunday
'This diplomat's wife reveals the riotous truth about their perilous postings'
The Times
'Denman's accuracy and effusive wit . . . had me cheering out loud'
Oxford Times
'I can honestly say it's funniest book that I've read for a long time . . . Cherry has obviously revelled in her life abroad, diplomatic or not. Read the book and enjoy'