This May 4th, Celebrate Womanhood and the Audrey Hepburn Way of Life
On May 4th, Audrey Hepburn would have been 76 years old. Yet her charm, style, wit and wisdom continue to inspire through How to be Lovely, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
(PRWEB) April 16, 2005 -- Upon her death in 1993, an editorial in the New
York Times would best express what we could not yet put into words: “Nearly
forty years later Audrey Hepburn’s face was that of someone who’d squinted into
the sun, laughed a few laughs, shed a few tears. The forehead showed some
wrinkles, the eyes showed some more, and the strong jawline was softening around
the edges. As unwilling to fake youth as she had been to fake voluptuousness,
she looked like the 63-year-old woman she was. Which is to say, better than any
63-year-old woman who’s pretending that she isn’t. Would that she were going to
be around longer, to teach us all how to grow old.”
On May 4, Audrey
Hepburn would have celebrated her 76th birthday. Twelve years after her death,
the lessons she learned live on in a charming guide to finding elegance in every
aspect of life - How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, (New York:
Dutton, 2004).
Distilling Hepburn's philosophies of life into headings
like "Attitude is Everything", "Wing It if You Have To" and "Love Your Mother
Anyway," author Melissa Hellstern showcases Hepburn’s thoughts on universal
topics of concern to women the world over – happiness, love, success, health,
marriage, motherhood, career, style and humanity - striking a chord with women
from age thirteen to eighty-two.
What the reviewers say:
"You won't be
able to finish this simple little book without a tear in your eye and a desire
to make your own life more meaningful. Now that is a book worth spending time
with."
— Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A breezy but sometimes insightful
read, this hybrid mini-biography/female empowerment manual goes down like a
soothing tonic for the 21st-century woman attempting to juggle life, career,
family and, if there's time, fashion."
— Publishers Weekly
What the
readers say:
“This is the perfect book to give for birthdays, hostess gifts,
Christmas, Mother's Day, graduation or any special event in a woman's life. I
sent it home with 15 ladies who attended a baby shower, and it has inspired
several Audrey "film-festivals." Her thoughts on how to carry oneself with
style, dignity and grace will translate to any generation. "How to be Lovely"
should be on every woman's night stand.”
— Mindy Peele, McLean, VA
“I
just gave my last book as a gift on Friday. Everyone was thrilled. Many gave me
hugs with tears! Our babysitter read the book in one day! She absolutely loved
it! Thank you for writing such an inspirational book!”
— Karen Duskin,
Sandusky, OH
What the author says:
“Audrey Hepburn did not write an
autobiography and so I wanted to explore just what she thought about her life -
her philosophies, in her words - and see what we, the women who admire her,
might learn about ourselves,” Hellstern said. “We know Audrey Hepburn as an
actress, a fashion icon and an humanitarian, but what struck me was how
genuinely kind she was in all aspects of her life. Here was this beautiful woman
who encountered so much from Nazi occupation and childhood divorce to fame and
Hollywood to failed love and public divorce. Yet, through it all, she stayed
true to her convictions
- kindness, grace and integrity. Like all true
beauty, Audrey's came from the inside out.”
Enhanced by rarely seen
photographs, behind the scenes stories and the friends who knew her well, How to
be Lovely offers a rare glimpse into the woman behind the mystique and the
definitive guide to living genuinely with glamour and grace.
An
award-winning writer, Hellstern’s thoughts on Hepburn have been featured
nationally and internationally on television, radio, magazine and newsprint. In
2005, How to be Lovely will publish in the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Hungary
and Spain.
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