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12 Editor’s letter Kate Garraway 38 shares her approach to life as she opens Sir James up on how she Dyson tells copes with its us about his many challenges quest to encourage the next generation 42 We celebrate the page-turners of the past century and look to the future Editor-in- 84 Why cycling can transform chief Gaby your life – and how to take is taking part in the Palace to Palace inspiration sponsored bike ride from Kate’s positivity Why we could all do with being a little more Garraway!hen I wrote the headline above about Kate Garraway, our cover star this month, it came straight from my heart. For me, she Wreally is ‘Incredible Kate’ and I genuinely think for our Future Gazing series (page 38). Having been a huge fan of his products since I bought my first flat 26 years ago and my first Dyson to vacuum its floors, I was already fascinated by his company – an interest that grew exponentially when that most of us could learn a lot from her I read his autobiography, Invention: A Life, earlier this year. In and would benefit from emulating her enduring spirit. Why so? our pages, Sir James talks about where this country’s future Because, of absolutely everyone I’ve ever met, Kate is the most inventions are likely to come from and how we desperately positive and optimistic of individuals. Her soul overflows with require more engineers coming through. ‘We need an army of hope and it’s simply impossible not to feel uplifted when independent-thinking, risk-taking scientists and engineers. For hearing her talk and seeing how she approaches life. children entering primary school today, 85% of the jobs they Of course, Kate has far more reason than many of us to be the will go on to pursue don’t yet exist,’ he writes. ‘In school and PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID VENNI, CAMERA PRESS, GETTY. ILLUSTRATION: SEAN LONGMORE polar opposite of this. Over the past two years, she has had to at every stage afterwards, we should encourage creativity endure agonising heartache owing to her husband Derek’s long and an attitude that we never stop learning.’ Hear, hear to that. battle with Covid, while still supporting her children and keeping If you’re looking for a great read this summer as you head off the family going by working incredibly hard as a TV and radio on holiday, I’d really recommend taking Sir James’s autobiography presenter. And now she assumes the role of a carer the moment with you. And you’ll also find lots of other ideas for brilliant she gets through her front door at the end of the working day… books both in our usual Bookshelf reviews (page 152) and in But there’s no anger or bitterness when she speaks. Rather, the fantastic 100-year retrospective A Century Of Escapism (page 42) by our talented books editor Joanne Finney. the recurring word in her vocabulary is ‘lucky’, and Kate talks about feeling enormous gratitude for a ‘newfound sense of how Wishing you a fabulous month full of good things. wonderful life is’. ‘I’ve learned that happiness is not necessarily a state of bliss and you’re not going to have it 24 hours a day. But Gaby Huddart that there’s happiness to be found all around us – you just have to open your eyes to it,’ she tells us. I do hope you find Kate’s EDITOR-IN-CHIEF interview (page 12) as inspiring and heartening as I did and [email protected] take something away from it – I find myself thinking about her @gabyhuddart regularly and checking myself if a negative thought pops into PS If you love a sporting challenge, please turn to page 87 for my brain. I’m certainly trying to be more Garraway! details of The Prince’s Trust Palace to Palace bike ride. This Another of my own personal heroes, Sir James Dyson, is also year GH is supporting the Trust’s Women Supporting Women to be found in our pages this month, as we asked him to write initiative and it’s a brilliant way to fundraise for this great cause. goodhousekeeping.com/uk 3AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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‘We’re all capable of more than we believe’ Kate Garraway opens up to Nathalie Whittle about caring for her husband Derek, renewing her wedding vows and the simple joys keeping her sane Photography DAVID VENNI O ver the past two years, many of us have watched Like much of the nation, we’re still very and been moved by the heartache that Kate Garraway has endured – and yet the recurring word in her much in awe of you. How are things? vocabulary is ‘lucky’. It’s not the word you might If I look back at where we started expect from a woman whose husband continues to with Derek, there have been massive improvements. The fact that he’s home suffer from severe long-term effects of Covid after falling ill in March with us is amazing, because there were many moments when we didn’t think 2020, but for Kate, it sums up exactly how she feels. ‘When you he’d even survive. His recovery is very slow; he’s had spells back in hospital. nearly lose everything, you see the things that matter much more Some days, you’ll get a flash of something positive and everybody clearly,’ she explains. ‘And you become immensely grateful for them.’ feels great, then the next, it feels like we’re going backwards. It’s not easy, Having been released from hospital in April 2021, Derek is now but I keep reminding myself of the things that couldn’t happen before living at home with Kate, 55, and their two children, Darcey, 16, and – being able to sit next to him on the bed and think, ‘It’s wonderful to have Billy, 12, in London, while Kate navigates her new reality of being you here.’ That helps you spot the little things that make it a good day. Derek’s primary carer. Now the You’ve shared your experience in your main breadwinner, she’s juggling documentaries, which struck a chord KATE WEARS: DRESS, FENWICK. NECKLACES, ROBINSON PELHAM caring for Derek with a packed There’s happiness work schedule; as well as her all around us – you with so many people – did you find hosting duties on ITV’s Good that cathartic? Morning Britain and Smooth Radio, just have to open It was wonderful that it touched so she’s been sharing her experience your eyes to it many people and they could relate it to in the poignant documentaries their life challenges. I’m now Derek’s primary carer and, as a family, we’ve had Finding Derek and Caring For to adjust to a very different life – in fact, I’m not sure we have fully adjusted yet. Derek, and recently launched her own Saturday-morning health and wellbeing talk show, Garraway’s Good Stuff. When we sit down to chat, she’s honest about the obstacles that still lie ahead for her and her family, and yet she remains hopeful about the future. ‘I want to enjoy things as a foursome again, with our newfound sense of how wonderful life is,’ she says. Here, she shares why there’s always happiness to be found in difficult times… goodhousekeeping.com/uk 13AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

The big interview When the second documentary, Caring For Derek, aired, I had You’ve said you’ve found a new way to be in love with Derek. tens of thousands of messages from people who care for loved ones and they’ve been incredibly helpful to me, actually, Is there a different kind of closeness between you now? particularly when I’ve felt a bit alone. When you nearly lose someone, it certainly brings everything into sharp focus. In many ways, we’re still learning how we are Are there any words of advice from other carers that have as man and wife, as so much has changed. It’s the same for the children – they’re having to relearn the experience of being with stayed with you? their dad. And, of course, the biggest learning is for poor Derek. So many. Treasure the good bits, which we all know to do but often forget. Don’t be afraid to admit that it’s tiring, and don’t That must be tough… feel guilty about that because it doesn’t mean you don’t want I’ve asked Derek, ‘Do you often dream that things are as they to be there for the person you’re caring for. Even Derek has were before?’ and he says he does. So, when he wakes up in the got upset about how much work it is on a few occasions. For morning, it must be like a horrific avalanche of realisation coming instance, when one of the children has also been unwell and down on him and then the reality of where he is now hits him, he can see I’m running around trying to juggle everything, he’ll and what the day is going to involve just to get through it. start crying and say, ‘I’m so sorry.’ And I’ll say, ‘Don’t you be sorry, I want to do it!’ Have you had to find new ways to stay positive and find joy Does it ever feel as time has gone on? Yes, but the joy isn’t necessarily overwhelming? found in magical things that It can feel hugely are undiscovered. It’s often in overwhelming. The only thing simple things that, ordinarily, I can liken it to is that feeling you might think nothing of. when you first bring a baby I’ve always loved walking and home from hospital and you gardening, but now that the sit there thinking, ‘Oh, my opportunity to do those things giddy aunt, I’m entirely is so much more squeezed, and responsible for this little life.’ I can see how much Derek I have this huge responsibility would love to do them but in terms of medication, can’t, it brings these things appointments and physically into technicolour. caring for all of Derek’s needs, including his feeds through How are you adjusting to a tube into his tummy. But it’s also very emotional, being a de facto single parent? because Derek has put this It’s a big change. Derek was overwhelming trust in me to very involved with the children care for him. If we ever get the before, both emotionally and chance to renew our wedding on a practical level, but he’s vows, I’m sure they should say, unable to be so in the same ‘I promise that I trust you way now and I think that to look after me, and you saddens him. I’m still learning promise that you trust me all the time. For instance, Derek to look after you!’ always paid the school dinner money and had all the clever It must be very physically apps for everything. One works using a fingerprint system and demanding, too… the first time I encountered it Yes, enormously. Derek can’t was when Darcey phoned me sit up on his own and getting him washed and cleaned is very and said, ‘Mum, my fingerprint isn’t working. You’ve got to put challenging. If I’m on my own, I have to try to do it in bed, and money on for it to work.’ I didn’t know what she was talking Derek has good days where he can help and move his arms about! I discover something new that Derek used to do every around a bit, and others where he just can’t. It’s extremely tiring. day – and it makes me love and appreciate him even more. But I always think, ‘I’m really lucky to have the chance to do this,’ because there were many sleepless nights when I was praying You’ve said Darcey and Billy have been your biggest for him just to be alive to care for. That’s what keeps me going. supporters – how are they managing? The last time we spoke, you talked about the importance of They’re both incredible with Derek. Darcey is very much, ‘Come on, Dad, we’re going to do this exercise in bed – I know you’re finding humour on the way. Are you still managing to find it? tired, but we have to do it.’ Billy is very intuitive. He always Yes, and often the humour can get quite dark – it turns into knows when Derek’s tired but wants somebody to be with him. ‘trench’ humour! Sometimes I’ll say to Derek, ‘Do you want me to stay?’ and he’ll nod, before closing his eyes and going to They sound very mature… sleep. I’ll look at him and go, ‘So you actually just want me to sit Darcey has definitely turned into a mini mummy. She’d be here and watch you sleep – that’s the level of adoration you’re horrified at the thought of that because it would mean she’s now demanding!’ He always smiles at that, which is lovely. turned into me, which is absolutely not what she wants, particularly if it means wearing any of my clothes! But the other 14 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

OPPOSITE PAGE: KATE WEARS: SHIRT; TROUSERS, BOTH SERENA BUTE. EARRINGS, VAN PETERSON. RING, ROBINSON PELHAM. MY FAVOURITE Life is a collection THIS PAGE: KATE WEARS: DRESS, LALAGE BEAUMONT. EARRINGS, VAN PETERSON. CUFF, CRISTINA CIPOLLI. SHOES, L.K.BENNETT THINGS of moments – and THE LAST GREAT BOOK I READ… finding more Derek’s unpublished book, which good ones than bad I’m determined to get published. Before he got ill, he’d sent a copy ones is the secret to Susanna Reid and a few months ago she said, ‘You need to read this, it’s amazing.’ She was right. THE LAST BOXSET I BINGED ON… Stranger Things, and not because the kids are addicted – it’s me, too! I got them into it and now Bill is obsessed with everything 1980s. MY CAN’T-MISS PODCAST… I really like Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, who was on my BBC Two series Your Body Uncovered. MY MOST CHERISHED MEMORY… The moment Derek came home. Because it was a moment we didn’t think would ever happen. MY DESERT ISLAND ESSENTIAL… Can I be flippant? Okay, then I’m torn between shampoo and hair serum, but if I didn’t have serum my hair would get so big that I’d probably be spotted by a rescue helicopter! MY MOST TREASURED POSSESSION… A bracelet, which has Darcey and Billy’s fingerprints on. It broke recently and I was devastated. THE PLACE I FEEL HAPPIEST… A lovely little village near Padstow, which we’ve been going to as a family for years. We swim and surf (or attempt to in my case!), and it’s always incredibly grounding. THE MANTRA I LIVE BY… I have two: be grateful and seize the day. As soon as you feel grateful for what you have, it’s so much easier to seize the day. goodhousekeeping.com/uk

The big interview Darcey and Billy are both incredible with Derek day, I was really tired and Billy knocked his cereal on the floor. Has that become increasingly important to you? I reacted and Darcey said, ‘Bill, she’s only upset because it’s Yes, I try to live in the moment more than ever before. I’ll send going to be her who has to clean it up, so why don’t we clean an email and think, ‘Okay, I’ve sent the email, I can’t do anything it up together?’ I was thinking, ‘Flipping heck, this is great!’ more about that now, so I’m just going to look out the window and notice how pretty the sky is.’ I really try to seize those You’ve been extremely busy with your work on Life Stories, moments because when you do, you realise that life is just a collection of moments – and finding more good ones than Good Morning Britain and your Smooth radio show – how bad ones is probably the secret to it all. are you managing it all? Being awarded an MBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours I think I’m going quietly mad! I couldn’t do it without amazing friends and family, but I try to just take it a day at a time – I’ve must have been a very happy moment… definitely had some close calls, though. I got very near to It was – it was amazing! But I haven’t received it yet, so I don’t oversleeping for GMB the other day! I’d been up all night and want to tempt fate in case they retract the offer! I do feel there’s I thought, ‘I have 45 minutes, I’ll just close my eyes.’ The next room for a celebration, though, and my hope is that if we do thing I knew, it felt like the house was being shaken down and eventually have a ceremony, Derek will be further along in his I had the GMB driver knocking at the door. Thankfully, I made it recovery and we can go together. That would be wonderful. in time… but I think I gave everyone a bit of heart failure. You’ve also launched a new show, Garraway’s Good Stuff… What have you learned about happiness? HAIR AND MAKEUP: ALICE THEOBALD AT ARLINGTON TALENT. STYLING: RACHEL FANCONI. It’s been wonderful to do that. There isn’t anybody who hasn’t That it’s not necessarily a state of bliss and you’re not going to KATE WEARS: DRESS, CLAIRE MISCHEVANI. EARRINGS, VAN PETERSON. RING, LARK & BERRY. been affected by the pandemic in some way, so I wanted to be have it 24 hours a day. But that there’s happiness to be found FABRIC BACKGROUND: ‘SARAILLE’ IN LEMONGRASS, 100% LINEN, W330CM, £228 A METRE, DESIGNERS GUILD part of a show that would make people feel good, where they all around us – you just have to open your eyes to it. could find ways to save money or take control of their health. We have brilliant guests every week who share what brings joy What would you tell others facing a huge life change? It’s not going to be easy, but you’ll be amazed by how much into their life – what’s not to 100 YEARS OF CHANGE you can do and achieve love about that? It’s also – and how much joy there benefitted the kids, too, The greatest change in women’s lives in the still is out there. I feel I still because our resident chef, last century has been… The ability to give have a long way to go, but Shivi [Ramoutar], has taught birth in relative safety and have pain relief. if I’ve learned anything, it’s me so much about cooking! Also, that we now live way beyond the menopause, so we that we should all believe have this wonderful new chapter to explore. in ourselves more because Do you think there’s The change I’d still like to see is… For women to be completely we’re all capable of more free to choose their own paths. It never occurs to Darcey that she than we believe. something to be said won’t be as clever, fast or strong as a man, or that anyone would  Garraway’s Good Stuff tell her what to wear or how to be – I’d like that to become the airs Saturdays from for keeping busy in norm. Hopefully we can then fight less and live and love more. 8.30am on ITV. Watch The women who have inspired me are… My mum, who I find Good Morning Britain challenging times? more incredible the older I get, and The Queen. She’s lived weekdays from 6am on Definitely. I’m very lucky that a life of service in the most extraordinary way, the likes of ITV and ITV Hub. Kate the children carry on growing, which I’m not sure we’ll see again. presents her Smooth Radio having needs, and that work show weekdays from keeps coming my way, 10am to 1pm because when you’re concentrating on something, it stops your mind from whirling about the worries. 16 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk



Packed toMakeyour perfectionholiday wardrobe work super hard with five classic buys that will take you from Photography beach to bar with DAVID GUBERT just a few clever Styling styling tricks. OONAGH BRENNAN Happy travels! PLAGE-TO-PARTY TROUSERS A pair of crease-resistant light cotton trousers is smart and practical – a holiday must. Choose a fresh seaside stripe and wear them on the beach, rolled up, with a colourful cotton T-shirt and flats. T-shirt, £30, xs-xl, Colorful Standard. Trousers, £179, 6-18, L.K.Bennett. Hat, £49, Whistles. Sunglasses, £137, Ray-Ban. Bag, £34, Ace And Prince. Sandals (just seen), £90, 3½-8, La Redoute 18 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Good style As the night draws in, switch the T-shirt for a slinky top with a sweetheart neckline, knot a silk scarf at your neck and add gold-detail sandals. A chic clutch will add a final glamorous flourish. Top, £65, 6-16, French Connection. Trousers, £179, 6-18, L.K.Bennett. Earrings, £3.50, George. Scarf, around £60, Lescarf. Belt, £19.99, Zara. Bag, £30, Next. Sandals, £35, 4-9, Monsoon [continued over page] goodhousekeeping.com/uk 19AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Good style COVER-UP-TO-COCKTAILS MAXI SKIRT A stick of rock-striped full-length skirt acts as a great cover-up on the beach. Choose a swimsuit in a matching colour – red is always fun – and playful straw accessories. Swimsuit, £140, 6-18, Davy J. Skirt, around £200, 6-14, House of Dagmar. Hat, £58, Free People. Sunglasses (on bag), around £45, Le Specs. Bag, £130, Jigsaw. Sliders (just seen), £115, 3-7, Iris & Ink at The Outnet 20 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

As you head to the bar, switch your flats for a pair of strappy gold heels, and add a crisp cotton top, opulent earrings and a striped clutch bag. Belted top, £59, 6-16, Warehouse. Skirt, around £200, 6-14 House of Dagmar. Earrings, £19, Phase Eight. Clutch, £35, Boden. Sandals, £169, 3-8, Karen Millen [continued over page] goodhousekeeping.com/uk 21AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

SHORELINE-TO-SUNSET SHORTS Roll up Me+Em’s navy cotton shorts, add a relaxed cotton T-shirt and sliders and you’re perfectly put-together for a day by the sea. T-shirt, £55, 4-18, The White Company. Shorts, £150, 6-16, Me+Em. Hat, £24.95, Joules. Sunglasses, around £45, Le Specs. Towel, £16, La Redoute. Bag, £82, Lalo The Shop at Fenwick. Sliders (just seen), £190, 4-7, Scholl x Eres 22 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Good style As the sun goes down, uncuff the shorts so they hit a more elegant mid-thigh length and wear with a statement blouse. Choose mules with a small heel – they will add length to your legs – and an evening bag in a shade of sunset orange. Blouse, £69, 6-16, Somerset by Alice Temperley at John Lewis & Partners. Shorts, £150, 6-16, Me+Em. Earrings, £15, Phase Eight. Bag, £129, Radley. Cuff, £18; mules, £46, 3-9, both Next [continued over page] goodhousekeeping.com/uk 23AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Good style BEACH-TO-BAR BRETON No summer wardrobe is complete without a wear-anywhere Breton striped top. Team it with a pair of colourful shorts and a raffia sunhat for a day spent relaxing. Top, £29.95, 6-28, Seasalt. Shorts, £79, 6-20, Jaeger. Hat, £120, Toast. Towel, £55, Tekla. Bag, £255, Furla. Sandals, around £135, 2-9, Ancient Greek Sandals 24 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Take a tip from Coco Chanel and embrace nautical for night-time. Layer a pretty lace shirt under your Breton (roll up the sleeves to show a frill cuff) and tuck it neatly into a full skirt in a contrasting stripe. Add a belt to accentuate your waist and metallic accessories to dial up the glitz. Top, £29.95, 6-28, Seasalt. Shirt, £79.95, 8-16, United Colors of Benetton. Skirt, £125, 6-18, Crew Clothing. Necklace, £320, Tilly Sveaas. Belt, £19.99, Zara. Bag, £199, Radley. Sliders, £59, 3-8, Jones Bootmaker [continued over page] goodhousekeeping.com/uk 25AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

DECKCHAIR-TO-DINNER DRESS A seersucker shirt dress is a versatile piece to pack in your suitcase. Wear it open like a long shirt over a one-piece and add smart tan sandals for lunch in the sunshine. Shirt dress, £55, 6-18, La Redoute. Swimsuit, £32, 6-20; earrings, £12.50, both Next. Towel, £65, Soho Home. Bag (personalised), £145, Rae Feather. Sliders, £32.99, 2-9, Zara 26 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Good style STYLING ASSISTANT: JODIE DUNWORTH HAIR: BEN COOKE AT FRANK AGENCY MAKEUP: KARINA CONSTANTINE MODEL: NATALIA COSTA AT MODELS 1 PRODUCTION (UK): FIONA ANDREWS PRODUCTION (PORTUGAL): SHOOT PORTUGAL THANKS TO ANANTARA VILAMOURA, ALGARVE Button up and belt your dress as you head out to dinner – a colourful wide belt will add interest and instantly elevate a relaxed silhouette. A gold chain bag and clogs add some extra shimmer and shine. Shirt dress, £55, 6-18, La Redoute. Hat, £45, The White Company. Earrings, £140, Paolita. Belt, £14.99, Freemans. Bag, £70, Dune London. Clogs, £165, 4-8, Wyse goodhousekeeping.com/uk 27AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

SUMHMOWETRO WSEAHR…ORTS TRUE BLUE COOL CO-ORDS Denim shorts have long been a summer hero. Follow our City or shore, the sleek shorts-and-blazer duo is the new styling tricks to ensure they look chic, not scruffy. co-ord that will deliver double the polish and twice the style. TIP The curvier TIP A shorts you are, the suit is a great bigger the ‘summer in the city’ outfit but shorts pockets also a holiday should be must-pack TIP A smart TIP TIP Wear with blouse will Avoid luxe tan sliders for balance the messy, casual nature frayed a modern look of denim hems FROM TOP LEFT Layered necklace, £32, Orelia. Blazer, £79; FROM TOP LEFT Jacket, £219, xs-xl, Plümo. Hat, £49, Whistles. Blouse, shorts, £49.50, both 6-24, Autograph at Marks & Spencer. Sunglasses, £160, 6-16, Lily and Lionel. Shorts, £95, 6-18, Wyse London. Trainers, £160, £14, Next. Top, £125, 4-16, ME+EM. Sliders, £29, 3-8, Anyday at 3½-9, Adidas Originals at Net-A-Porter. Bag, £59, The White Company John Lewis & Partners. Bag, £49, Crew Clothing TIP TIP If you have High-waisted a fuller bust shorts create a leg-lengthening and hips, try a single-breasted effect blazer and CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Shorts, £10, 8-20, Matalan. Shorts, £45, wider shorts 6-20, And/Or at John Lewis & Partners. Shorts, £69, 4-18, The White Company. Shorts, £39, 8-24, Monsoon FROM LEFT Blazer, £265; shorts, £129, both 6-20, Jaeger. Blazer, £179; shorts, £69, both 6-18, Hobbs. 28 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 Blazer, £29; shorts, £14, both 6-22, F&F goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Shop for your shape Sun’s out, legs out, but this tricky sunshine staple usually sends most of us running! Don’t be put off – here’s how to rock a pair of shorts the grown-up way PARTY PANTS PERFECTLY PRACTICAL Let your shorts take centre stage with a cocktail of colours A pair of utility shorts will give your wardrobe an instantly and prints. Be brave and be bolder on your bottom half. cool edge. Neutral tones are both versatile and timeless. TIP Keep TIP Conscious your top of your thighs? pared back, A statement top allowing your will divert focus shorts to be the hero TIP Utility style piece works best when you TIP These smart striped shorts add a little will take you from meetings personality, to martinis effortlessly such as FROM TOP LEFT Blouse, £95, xs-xl, Aspiga. Earrings, £48, Anthropologie. studded Bag, £35.99, Mango. Hairclip, £24, Free People. Shorts, £12, 6-22, F&F. sandals Pumps, £189, 3-9, Pretty Ballerinas TIP Khaki shorts TIP are ageless, Short shorts yet utterly of the moment are best for petite FROM TOP LEFT Top, £119, xs-l, Whistles. Glasses, £149, frames so Vivienne Westwood x Specsavers. Hat, £21, JD Williams. Earrings, as not to £110, Otiumberg. Bag, £95, & Other Stories. Shorts, £85, 6-18, Baukjen. swamp your Sandals, £245, 3-8, Russell & Bromley figure COMPILED BY: AMANDA MARCANTONIO CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Shorts, £49.95, 6-18, Thought. Shorts, TIP £65, 6-22, Boden. Shorts, £75, 6-22, Boden. Shorts, £12, 8-22, Studio For a flattering goodhousekeeping.com/uk fit, be sure to tuck tops into high waistbands FROM LEFT Shorts, £27.99, 10-28, Damart. Shorts, £60, 6-16, Jigsaw. Shorts, £115, 4-14, Iris & Ink at The Outnet. Shorts, £59, 6-20, Hobbs 29AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING



Hat, £14, Dress, £150, Blouse, £110, Good style ASOS Design xs-xl; sandals, 6-16, Jigsaw Trousers, £110, Dress, £60, 3-9, 6-16, Jigsaw £145, both Aspiga 6-16, Jigsaw Shirt, £195, 6-18, Toast Clogs, £169, 3-9, Penelope Chilvers TIP Bag, Summer’s £39.50, smocking Jacket, Oliver and shirring £249, Bonas stitching 6-18, trend gives Brora TIP Look to creams Top, £95, OH-SEWshapeto and off-whites xs-l, Iris to bring a luxe Dress, voluminous feel to crochet £139, xs-l, Antik LOVELYsilhouettes Top, £75, xs-xl, Batik Intricate floral embroidery and Phase Eight at The crochet details inject a decorative Outnet charm to your summer wardrobe Bag, Espadrilles, £130, £29.50, 3-8, Sézane Marks & Spencer COMPILED BY: AMANDA MARCANTONIO Espadrilles, Top, £24, Playsuit, £50, 3-8, xs-xxl, £120, Next 6-22, Hush Puppies Dress, £180, 6-22, Boden Boden 31AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING



Point of view SUSAN CALMAN ‘My ideal festival would take place in my back garden’ Festivals are great fun, as our columnist knows. But there are a few things Fabout them that have put her off, starting with the lack of home comforts estival is a lovely word, isn’t it? It screams fun and But without question, the thing that fills me most with dread happiness and, by its very nature, it sounds like is the camping. There’s a very special smell associated with the a blast. And surely summer is the perfect time to inside of a condensation-lined tent after several people have enjoy one? Sunshine, Prosecco and a picnic. Sounds slept in it. A musky, damp odour that you can practically chew like heaven. Indeed, I’m often scrolling through social on. And, no matter how organised you try to be, it only takes media with more than a little bit of envy, looking at photos a matter of hours before everything is everywhere all at once. of my friends having the time of their lives at Glastonbury or I confess, I did camp a few years ago at a music festival (my Latitude or some deeply fashionable-looking weekend in a field. friends said it would be fun). I had a tent and no instructions. But then I remember, I’m not really a festival type of gal. Because apparently putting up a tent is easy. It’s just a bunch of I know that the reasons to go to a festival are many. Lots of ropes and some material, right? Wrong. I spent at least an hour people you want to see, all in the one place, all at the one time. randomly banging in tent pegs and attempting to hang stuff If you add the atmosphere, the food and the music, it’s surely over other stuff to fashion what ended up looking like a shelter the perfect way to spend a few days. Except for me, it’s utterly Tom Hanks would have made in Cast Away. All around me, terrifying. I have a very clear memory of spending the weekend people were throwing up their tents effortlessly, like Bear Grylls. in a field when on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award excursion as I managed to get to sleep. But at 2am, when my neighbours a teenager and all I really learned from the experience was that returned to their tents, I was rudely awakened by every single it’s impossible to outrun a swarm of biting midges. word they said. It was like they were in my tent; actually, at one Let’s take the basics of why point, I think someone was. a festival isn’t my ideal outing. Of course, festivals can be Number one, the toilets. My tent looked like a shelter Tom Hanks fun. Like almost everything I’m rather paranoid about would have made in Cast Away in life, you just need to find loos (both the number and cleanliness of them) and the the one that’s right for you. Personally, I love a book horror stories I’ve seen about festival. They tend to be less what the facilities are like about camping and more fills me with utter dread. And about a lovely afternoon I don’t know about you, but listening to someone talk about when I know there’s a queue an interesting read. I’ve also of people waiting outside enjoyed tulip festivals, and a facility, I get quite flustered. even local ones at the park I was once attending an event across the road from me. The and the thought of people Edinburgh Festival in August is, staring at the door waiting of course, a must-visit at least PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID VENNI. ILLUSTRATION: STEPHEN COLLINS for me to come out led to me once in your life, and you can dropping my jumper into the enjoy everything from opera loo (I just left it – sometimes at Glyndebourne to Batman you have to cut your losses). at a Comic Con. Crowds are always an issue, My ideal festival would take too. Being so short, I can find place in my own back garden. it difficult to locate the people Maybe I’ll start one. Smaller I’m with. I have nightmares than Woodstock, less crowded about the embarrassment of than a Radio One Roadshow, a loudspeaker announcement and everyone in their own beds going out to declare: ‘A by nine o’clock. And, most lost child called Susan, importantly, my very own loo. aged 47, is waiting at the Now that’s what I would information desk.’ call a festival of fun. goodhousekeeping.com/uk 33AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘The L OVE arou nd me As she publishes her memoir, much-loved TV presenter, charity campaigner and peer Baroness Floella Benjamin talks to Joanne Finney about her life journey, the joy of family and the legacy she hopes is like atoleavebehind SUPERPOWER’

Celebrity exclusive Everywhere she goes, Floella Benjamin comes However, her happy family didn’t come easily to Floella, across what she calls her ‘Play School babies’. who experienced three miscarriages before she had her ‘Almost every single day I get a message on social daughter. ‘It was a traumatic time,’ she says. ‘When I had media from one of them,’ she says. ‘I meet them my third one, it was like a black fog had descended. I think in the supermarket, at events, even in Parliament. it’s a really important subject to talk about. I tried to get a TV They cry when they meet me. It’s not about being famous programme made about it, but no one wanted to know – at – it’s a deeper connection than that. I was in their lives at the time it was taboo. Now, people are more open about it.’ such a formative age.’ Anyone who grew up in the 1970s or 1980s, or had small children then, will remember Floella’s A TURNING POINT infectious smile and blue-beaded braids from her regular The couple’s other baby is their TV production company appearances on the weekday show aimed at preschoolers. – now called Floella Benjamin Productions – which they Although Play School made her a household name, founded in 1987. Together they have produced many it wasn’t her first brush with fame. On the train home one TV programmes, including Treehouse, Playabout and day from her job in the accounts office at Barclays bank, an adaptation of Floella’s children’s book Coming To Floella spotted an advert in the evening paper calling for England. The childhood memoir recounts her experiences singers and dancers, ‘no experience needed’. Raised by a of arriving in the UK from Trinidad when she was 10 and father who worked as a jazz musician and who took his six the racism she encountered. She was verbally attacked, children to see Hollywood films at the local outdoor cinema, spat at and couldn’t even get served in the local shops. Floella dreamed of being an entertainer. Now was her ‘I didn’t understand it,’ she says. ‘My mum had to explain to chance. The show was Hair, the controversial musical me that some people would hate me because of the colour that opened in 1968, and she toured the country in it for of my skin. The injustice of it all made me so angry.’ months, one of only two cast members She describes her first four years in who didn’t take their clothes off. London as ‘one long fight’ and things I planted rose bushesWhile working on the production, she changed only when she had what she met Keith Taylor, a stage manager. Over when each of my describes as a spiritual moment: ‘This several years they became close friends, children were born, particular day, I was walking to the before marrying in 1980. ‘I always feel it shops and a boy about the same age was preordained we would meet,’ she and I watch them as me started insulting me. I was so says. ‘We both came to London at the flourish every year incensed by him, I started fighting him. age of 10 and we criss-crossed each Then suddenly the world stood still and other’s lives. We were also born a day I heard a voice that said, “Floella, what apart!’ The couple have now been married are you doing? Because of this boy’s for 42 years and Floella credits a lot of her ignorance, you’re going success to her husband, to get yourself in calling him ‘the wind trouble. You can’t beneath my wings’. change the colour of ‘I’ve been very fortunate your skin and if he has to have a relationship a problem with it, it’s his with someone who problem. You know your isn’t jealous of my Marmie and Dardie [her achievements – in fact, he Floella in her mother and father] love helps me to be successful. Play School you – start loving yourself He’s a very creative, days (left) and the same way.”’ artistic person himself running one of and I respect that. The 10 marathons Does she think things basis of our relationship is for charity have changed now? ‘Since Black Lives Matter and friendship. We just really George Floyd’s murder, like each other.’ people are suddenly seeing The couple have two that something is not right,’ she says. children: Aston, 40, an international lawyer, ‘Many years ago, if you talked about and Alvina, 33, a teacher. ‘If I were to die racism, people thought you had a chip tomorrow, I know I’ve raised two wonderful on your shoulder. No one understood children,’ says Floella. ‘When they were the adversity that people of colour born, I planted two rose bushes, white for had to face. I’ve been saying this for Aston and a pink one for Alvina. I’ve lived the last 50 years – people are finally in the same house since 1979 and I watch Her production ready to listen. People who didn’t see their rose bushes flourish every year.’ company is what was happening or feel it was behind TV shows such as Great British Picnics goodhousekeeping.com/uk 35AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Celebrity exclusive Floella pictured enjoying a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show something they wanted to get involved in now do. They want to make a difference. This gives me hope.’ A CHAMPION FOR CHILDREN Since her Play School days, when she questioned why there were only white children in their story illustrations, Floella has used her position to make grassroots changes. She’s long been a passionate campaigner on behalf of children’s rights and is vice president of Barnardo’s (she ran 10 consecutive London marathons to fundraise for the charity). It’s perhaps no surprise that she felt the call of public service: in 2006, she became chancellor of the University of Exeter – the first Black woman to be so honoured – and four Receiving her She’s been WORDS ON years later, a peer in the Damehood a peer in THE PAGE House Of Lords. ‘When Medal in 2020 the House I stand in the House of of Lords Her most recent project is Lords, I feel the weight since 2010 her autobiography, What of history,’ she says. ‘Two hundred years ago, Are You Doing Here?. this is where decisions Writing it was one of the were made about my toughest things she’s ancestors and now here done, she says: ‘There were I am, paving the way for many bits in the book that the next generation.’ I cried about. Reliving my Her Damehood Medal childhood experiences of (DBE), awarded to her being left [she was placed at Buckingham Palace in with foster parents for 15 2020 for services to charity, is the latest months while her parents in a long list of honours that includes established themselves in a BAFTA Special Award and an OBE Many years ago, the UK] was very traumatic. It just shows for services to broadcasting. that trauma stays with you. That’s why What next? Not standing for Mayor if you talked about I always say childhood lasts a lifetime. of London or Speaker in the House of That’s something I wanted to explain to PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SINDEN/CAMERA PRESS, GETTY, SHUTTERSTOCK, ALAMY, ALPHA people – you might see me walking around racism, people thoughtLords, both roles she has been you had a chip on approached about. She and Keith sat your shoulder smiling, but we all have trauma.’ She down and discussed the role of Speaker, credits her resilience to the incredible love as they do every decision. ‘A lot of people she experienced, first from her parents said to do it, but I felt personally it wasn’t and later from Keith and her children. right for me,’ she explains. ‘We have a play, ‘I was very lucky having such a wonderful, we’re writing a film, I have my charitable work; I wouldn’t loving home life,’ she says. ‘Some bad things have happened, be able to do all that.’ As we went to press, she was due but the love that was generated around me is like a superpower to unveil the Windrush Monument at London’s Waterloo that shields me. Now, I try to pass that on to other people.’ station, a memorial that means a great deal to her. ‘When Floella turns 73 in a few months – although she still exudes I was 10, Waterloo station was where I arrived,’ she says. the same radiance and energy she was so loved for in her If I could have thought that 62 years later I’d be in charge Play School days – but has no plans to retire. ‘I love working, of the Windrush Commemoration Committee… Young I love changing the world, I love making a difference,’ she Floella wouldn’t have believed it! When I came to the UK, explains. ‘The right time to go is when people start repeating no one knew anything about Trinidad and the Windrush what I’m saying. Then I’ll know my work is done.’ journey, but now everyone does. It feels like a wonderful • What Are You Doing Here? (Macmillan) by Baroness Floella legacy to leave behind, a gift for future generations.’ Benjamin is out now 36 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

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‘We need radical ideas & perseverance’ Great inventions are the key to a better future, says Sir James Dyson, who has started his own university to create a new generation of changemakers I Illustration SEAN LONGMORE to tackle the very significant problems ’m wary of making predictions. I am, that the world faces! We need an army of however, an optimist and think the independent-thinking, risk-taking scientists world will be a better place thanks and engineers. For children entering to innovation, science, engineering and radical thinking. Rather than primary school today, 85% of the jobs simply throwing up our arms and they will go on to pursue don’t yet exist. complaining about problems, we need to solve them – and that task inevitably IDEAS NEED TO didn’t even renew the patent. As soon as falls to engineers and scientists. BE NURTURED it became apparent that the Germans had Some things are clear: robotics, sensing forged ahead with jet technology, the In school and at every stage afterwards, technology and automation will play an we should encourage creativity and an Government effectively stole Whittle’s increasing role, reducing repetitive tasks attitude that we never stop learning. We design without compensation or even and encouraging healthier lives. Also, also need young people to experiment allowing Whittle’s company to compete rather than accept compromise, the and fail at every stage, since the path to in its manufacture. engineer’s instinct of ‘doing more with success is not linear. History has shown, It was a shameful episode, but I am less’ will become increasingly important again and again, that people are quick to inspired by the brilliance of the man and – higher-performance technology while doubt and criticise an idea – doubting the lesson of the story: ideas need to be using fewer precious resources. Thomases – so you need to be resilient. nurtured. To remind us, we have the world’s None of this will be achieved without Though they are not modern stories, oldest working jet engine here at Dyson. the fearless problem-solving and three of my heroes make A team of our engineers experimentation of young engineers and this point in an apt way – restored it to Whittle’s scientists. We need many more. The UK they are stories of setbacks, Innovation in specification – rather than the currently lacks around 60,000 engineers risk-taking and often failure, science and subsequent Rolls-Royce one. and only has 38,000 graduates a year, proving, I suppose, that We fire it up in the car park. compared to 1.2m in China, 880,000 in invention requires great engineering My other hero is Alec India, 200,000 in the USA, 144,000 in perseverance and resilience. will make Issigonis, designer of Korea and 87,000 in the Philippines. the Mini, for his belief The first, Frank Whittle, I developed our first vacuum cleaner changed the face of in simplifying and his – the DC01 – with four mechanical aviation with the brilliance engineers and two engineers working of his jet engine. In one the world fearlessness in taking a better place an entirely different machines. Things are different today; the invention, an engine of approach; bringing together latest Dyson vacuum, the V15, with laser countless moving parts was the transverse engine, and sensor technology, involved 400 reduced to one single moving front-wheel drive and rubber suspension. engineers and scientists working in component. The jet age was born, and His clever use of space meant an acoustics, AI, connectivity, energy storage a hero was made – you would think. extraordinary 80% of the car was and motor control skills, and expertise But Whittle was treated appallingly by given over to its occupants. drawn from all over the world. Britain’s Air Ministry during the Second The Mini is the most successful car from This is just Dyson. Now imagine how World War. The ministry provided only a British brand – 5m sales over its 40-year many engineers and scientists it will take a trickle of funding to the project and production. It has led many lives – family 38 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Future gazing WORDS: SIR JAMES DYSON. PHOTOGRAPHY: DYSON, GETTY saloon, Monte Carlo Rally winner, post odder still that it was marketed as cancer-testing device that uses a urine van, delivery truck and so on. Issigonis a tape recorder, yet it didn’t record! sample and an AI algorithm to detect early knew how small cars could be big. It’s a signs of the disease. These are significant timeless product without obvious styling. Despite a confused start, the Walkman leaps, brought about by young minds. proved to be a great success. Sony Famously independently minded, had hoped to sell 5,000 units a month In my quest to encourage more young Issigonis believed ‘market research is – 50,000 were sold in the first two. By the people to pursue a life of engineering, bunk’ and that ‘one should never copy the time production ended in Japan in 2010, I complained to successive Government opposition’. His approach resulted in a car more than 400m had been sold worldwide ministers, until I was challenged by one that reimagined and revolutionised the and it had become a cultural phenomenon. of them – Jo Johnson – to create my own market. I was given an original Morris university. And so I did! Our undergraduates Mini-Minor by Dyson engineers for my 60th These stories show that to achieve combine study with two days a week birthday. It’s sectioned lengthways so you change, you need radical ideas and working on real projects alongside Dyson can see the inner workings. It’s kept at our the perseverance to see them through engineers. They are paid a salary and pay Malmesbury campus and serves as an – against all odds. no fees, meaning they can avoid the debt everyday reminder of the ingenuity of good of a traditional university education. design. Twenty-seven bottles of Gordon’s POWER TO CHANGE gin fit in the door pockets… apparently! THE WORLD We are now in year five, with the first cohort having graduated last year – these Finally, Sony. A challenge was laid We face big challenges in our age, but young minds are creating the future down at Sony in the 1970s when company they won’t be solved by grandstanding. technology that will drive Dyson forward. co-founder Masaru Ibuka said he wanted The next generation of problem solvers Not products made in response to what to be able to listen to music while need to roll up their sleeves. I believe people say they want or what market travelling by plane. The result? The young engineers and scientists from research predicts, but ideas that are the Sony Walkman, launched in 1979. In one around the world are leading us by result of having the courage to look at a product, designer and co-founder Akio example. They have the mindset, passion problem in the ‘wrong’ way and come up Morita had created a revolution in how and skills to solve the problems we face. with a solution that works. I hope they all we would consume audio, from a shared follow in the footsteps of my ‘heroes’ and experience to a personal one. Young engineers really do have that their inventions surprise us. the power to change the world – and • Invention: A Life (Simon & Schuster), Morita’s singular vision meant a I encourage them to do so. I see this for an autobiography by James Dyson, is out perfectly realised product. But while myself through our James Dyson Award. now. Find out more at dysoninstitute.com. the importance of the invention can be Recent winning inventions include a film The fee for this article has been donated seen clearly with hindsight, at the time derived from vegetable waste spread to Race Against Dementia consumers dismissed it as odd, and across a window to generate electricity, and an at-home biomedical breast goodhousekeeping.com/uk 39AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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Talking point A century of A love of books has been central to Good Housekeeping’s ethos since we launched in 1922. Here, books editor Joanne Finney celebrates the page-turners of the past century and considers what we’re likely to be reading in the future In a world where there’s fierce A LOVE OF BOOKS During the Second World War, competition for our time, books remain hugely popular. In a Good Housekeeping has recognised and the publishing industry faced huge recent YouGov survey, nearly half the population (43%) said fed its readers’ love of books since the challenges, including paper shortages. they read at least once a week for pleasure and last year alone saw beginning, with a mix of short stories, But blackouts and enforced time 212m print books fly off the shelves*. author interviews and book reviews in at home led to a boom in reading. So, what is the reason for this ongoing love affair? ‘Storytelling is every issue (our very first issue opened Spending on books more than doubled always going to be a fundamental part of our culture,’ says Bea with a short story by William J Locke, between 1938 and 1945. The arrival of Carvalho, head of fiction at Waterstones. ‘Books are one of the which ran before even the editor’s letter). the innovative Penguin paperback series oldest forms of entertainment and the joy of the physical book Over the past 100 years, household names in the 1930s also had a huge impact. The shouldn’t be underestimated. They are beautiful objects.’ have written for our pages, from Virginia publisher took a financial risk by printing The current success is surprising, Woolf and Daphne du Maurier to Joanne in such big numbers but it meant prices given that a decade ago the market was in decline. At the Edinburgh Harris and Alexander McCall Smith. could be kept down (books sold for International Book Festival in 2011, author Ewan Morrison asked: “are When Good Housekeeping launched, sixpence each); it paid off and the books dead?” He predicted that, within 25 years, paper books would readers would most likely have borrowed orange and white striped books were not exist, thanks to e-books. And not only would digital replace print, the rather than bought their books. soon everywhere. By the early 1950s, the work of authors as we know them would become of little value. ‘Circulating libraries, which members paperback revolution was well underway. Obviously Morrison wasn’t able to paid a small fee to belong to, were very Thanks to new technology, books were foresee the pandemic that kept us inside and turning to books, but even popular with the middle classes in the cheaper than ever and began to before that, print books were showing signs of new growth. Although early 20th century,’ says Dr Nicola be sold everywhere from e-book sales overtook print in 2012, by 2016 e-book sales were falling, Wilson, associate professor in train stations to airports. while print grew by 7%. Last year – even with bookshops shut for the book and publishing studies 212m ‘Publishers were able first few months – print book sales at University of Reading. ‘In to try new things and rose by 5% and were neck-and-neck the 1920s, few ordinary thrillers such as the Bond with e-books in terms of income (£3.5b for print and £3.2b digital*). people would have bought PRINT BOOKS books by Ian Fleming books, as they were so WERE SOLD IN 2021 and novels by working- expensive and there were class writers, such as few bookshops outside of IN THE UK Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday London. These libraries, found Night And Sunday Morning, in shops like Boots and WH Smith, did well,’ says Dr Wilson. were seen as smart and exclusive.’ The number of books being published Book clubs, such as The Book Society, has now hit an all-time high, with which launched in the 1920s as a 167,000 books published in the UK last mail-order subscription service, were also year**. In fact, we publish more books becoming popular. ‘The idea with The per person than any other country in Book Society was to encourage readers the world***. ‘We’re really lucky at the to shift their borrowing habits and start moment because the standard is just buying books instead,’ says Dr Wilson. so high,’ says Bea Carvalho. ‘You look ‘They had a lot of success and by the at this year’s selection and some of late 1930s had over 30,000 members.’ the absolute best novelists writing Today, there are an estimated 50,000 today, such as Maggie O’Farrell and book clubs in the UK, including GH’s Ian McEwan, have books out. And the own online Book Room (facebook.com/ emerging talent is stunning. Creativity groups/GoodHousekeepingBookRoom). and talent are just booming.’ 42 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

escapism CHANGING TRENDS Today, there are an – to kick-start a trend (in that case, estimated 50,000 book erotica), but with others, such as the While some things have changed hugely ‘girl’ phenomenon, it’s more of a snowball in the book world, others haven’t. At the clubs in the UK effect: what began with The Girl With start of the 20th century, the preoccupation The Dragon Tattoo gathered momentum was invasion fiction. HG Wells’s The War Reading books is with Gone Girl and The Girl On The Train Of The Worlds was a bestseller in the first one of the oldest forms and still seems to be going strong. 10 years of the century. Fast-forward to of entertainment the early 21st century and we again saw In recent years, one genre has a hunger for dystopian fiction such as dominated: crime. In 2017, it outsold all The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Oryx other genres for the first time and the And Crake by Margaret Atwood. The first market is now worth £117m in the UK. decade of a century is one of uncertainty GH readers agree – in a recent survey, and the books we read reflect that. crime and psychological thrillers topped the poll, with 55% of readers picking it Book trends are often led by what as their favourite genre. is happening in the world, says Bea. ‘ In the past two years, we’ve seen a big OUR FAVOURITE GADGET uptake in cosy crime and retellings of Greek myths. Given how tricky things When the e-reader was first launched in have been during the pandemic, I think the late 1990s, the general response was the comfort you get from classic that it was a passing trend. Gradually, mysteries has really resonated with though, its popularity grew as readers readers and it’s the same with myths realised that this new gadget meant they and their familiar stories.’ Similarly, during might actually have some room in their the Second World War there was huge holiday suitcase for clothes once all those interest in the classics. novels were removed. They also liked that every book published before 1990 Sometimes all it takes is one book – including every witty Jane Austen and – think Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James goodhousekeeping.com/uk 43AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

brooding Brontë ever written – was free, and will now never go ‘out of print’. While e-books haven’t seen the total takeover predicted, sales continue to be consistent. According to a YouGov survey, 24% of Brits read e-books and more than 15% downloaded one in the last three months. A WORD IN YOUR EAR One area of the market that is currently seeing an explosion is audiobooks. Sales had been increasing steadily since 2014 and accelerated in 2020 during the first lockdown. In 2021, they saw a 14% increase on the previous year. ‘Audiobooks offer different things to different people,’ says Fionnuala Barrett, audio publishing director at HarperCollins. ‘On a practical level, audio frees you from a screen – and a lot of us spent a great deal of time tied to screens during lockdowns.’ Book lovers rate them not only for convenience (listening while you iron makes it much more bearable!) but also because having a story read to you adds another dimension. ‘The connection between performer and listener can be profound, which meant a lot at a time of such disconnection and loneliness,’ adds Fionnuala. Why we love to us, especially in high-value locations psychological thrillers such as the brain. We know that when we read about a character’s misery, the Former police psychologist Dr Emma Kavanagh is the area of the brain involved in emotion author of six bestselling thrillers and a non-fiction guide and pain becomes activated. When to coping with burnout called How To Be Broken. we read about movement, our own movement centres light up. And so stories allow our brains to mimic the The appeal of crime novels, that one of the most important activities of a character. They essentially and of psychological thrillers developments in the human brain is that serve as a training ground, allowing us specifically, is an enduring one. of the Default Mode Network. The DMN to experience a range of social environments vicariously. Research has The earliest known example of is an area of the brain that becomes shown that those who read fiction score a psychological thriller depends on who active when we are not focused on the better in empathy measures. Experience you ask. Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie outside world. It is the area responsible is a rich teacher for us, and so stories Collins, Edgar Allan Poe… all have been for daydreaming, for thoughts of our allow us to build up mental models attributed with beginning a trend that past, our future. It’s the area of events and reactions to them. continues unabated. But for as long as that is critically involved in They also allow us to better there have been stories, there has been understanding the thoughts understand the experiences an element of the psychological. And of those around us. And it THCRRIILMLEE&RS of our fellow humans. that is likely no coincidence. is the area that is crucial In psychological thrillers, to imagination and the TOP GH READERS’ Let me explain. Humans are a highly way we process stories. we find other elements social species. Our success has come of value. We find danger, from our ability to interact with others. Evolution is a hard the risk of death. Terror And so evolution has created within us taskmaster. It allows LIST OF FAVOURITE Management Theory a drive to understand the human mind. little to remain that GENRES suggests that our own fear Paleontological research has suggested isn’t of immense value of mortality is what draws us 44 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

Research shows that Talking point thrillers can serve to 5 FEMALE WRITERS WHO induce feelings CHANGED OUR READING TASTES of compassion AGATHA CHRISTIE With 66 detective novels to her name (not to experience fictional risk, without fear to mention short stories, poetry and plays), the queen of crime of real-world consequences. Research is the bestselling novelist of all time – with 2bn copies of her has also suggested that thrillers can books sold since 1920. Poison was Agatha’s fictional murder serve to induce feelings of compassion method of choice, in which she gained expertise while working – making us better social animals – and as an apothecary’s assistant during the First World War. Her can increase our appreciation of the disappearance in 1926 provoked a nationwide hunt (Sir Arthur important things in our own lives. Conan Doyle helped in the search) and, although she was found in a hotel in Harrogate, she never explained what had Danger intrigues us. It’s meant to. We happened during those 11 days. Her books continue to sell and are programmed to pay attention to the her play The Mousetrap is the world’s longest running. things that might kill us. Serial killers, for example. They pique our interest, SHIRLEY CONRAN Shirley has always been ahead because it is evolutionarily valuable for of the curve. Her 1975 book Superwoman – which us to have some kind of understanding included the mantra ‘Life’s too short to stuff a of how such threats operate. mushroom’ – told working women how to make more time for fun. Later, she set up The Work-Life Balance Psychological thrillers also provide Trust to lobby for flexible working. She was women’s us with an insight into traumatic events. editor of The Observer Magazine and the first editor of What research tells us is that being the Daily Mail’s Femail pages. Aged 40, she quit due to exposed to the traumatic experiences of illness and turned to writing novels. Her debut, Lace, other people (even if they are fictional), paved the way for a generation of racy books. More and their subsequent resilience and recently, Shirley has become a financial guru and survival, makes it more likely that we will launched maths course Money Stuff. experience resilience and post-traumatic growth in the aftermath of our own HELEN FIELDING When journalist Helen began her anonymous difficulties. Psychological thrillers are column in The Independent about a fictional thirtysomething beloved. And they are beloved not singleton looking for love, she created one of the most iconic simply for the thrills that they give us, characters of all time. Flawed, funny Bridget Jones was a breath but for the lessons that they can teach. of fresh air and readers lapped it up – Bridget Jones’s Diary has sold 15m copies worldwide since it was published. A quarter goodhousekeeping.com/uk of a century and three more books later, Helen’s imperfect heroine has influenced many fictional characters, from Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag to Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie. JK ROWLING It takes guts to keep writing after rejections from 12 publishing houses, especially when you’re a single mum with a full-time job. Joanne persevered and her determination paid off – not only has she sold over 500m Harry Potter books, she’s inspired a whole generation of children to love reading. In 2013, she secretly published a crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and has since written another five books in the series. BERNARDINE EVARISTO When Bernardine won the Booker Prize in 2019 with Girl, Woman, Other, it was one of the most talked about wins in years. Not only was she the first Black woman to be awarded the prize, but the fact the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie (the £50,000 was split with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments) was controversial. In 2020, she became the first Black woman to top the UK fiction paperback chart and was recently elected as president of The Royal Society of Literature.

Talking point Why we still need a TOP 10 FICTION OF book prize for women THE LAST DECADE Author and playwright Kate Mosse shares how she According to Amazon, these novels came to found the Women’s Prize for Fiction. were the biggest sellers in Britain in each of the past 10 years. In the dreary January of 1992, English, of any age, any nationality, any a group of publishing colleagues, ethnicity, in any genre – was the way to 2021: The Midnight Library literary agents, booksellers and level the playing field. by Matt Haig journalists gathered at a flat in 2020: The Thursday Murder Some tough years followed; finding Club by Richard Osman 2019: The Testaments London. We were there to discuss if it a sponsor and losing a sponsor. We by Margaret Atwood 2018: Eleanor Oliphant mattered that novels by women were learned that although some 60% Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman routinely overlooked by the major of novels published were authored 2017: La Belle Sauvage: The Book Of Dust Volume literary prizes and, if we thought it did by women, fewer than 9% shortlisted for One by Philip Pullman 2016: Harry Potter And The matter, what we were going to do literary prizes were by women. There Cursed Child: Parts One And Two by JK Rowling about it. The catalyst had been an was, and still is, a great deal of bias and 2015: The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins all-male Booker Prize shortlist the fear about women doing things for 2014: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green previous October. Not a cause for other women. We had false starts and 2013: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2012: Fifty Shades Of Grey complaint in itself – any setbacks; then a gift from by EL James judging panel has the right an anonymous donor Need some reading inspiration? Take a look at our list of 100 best books to choose the books that This is a fight helped us to secure by women (goodhousekeeping.com/ they collectively most that is far from a major new sponsor, uk/best-books-to-read) value, most admire – but telecommunications a focal point for discussions about the red flag had been that being over company Orange. Finally, women’s lack of visibility, how women no one seemed to have in May 1996, at the are overlooked, the bias in reviewing and media coverage, and about noticed the absence of National Liberal Club representation. This is a fight that is far from being over. Novels longlisted and female writers. in London, beneath shortlisted for the Women’s Prize are now on university and school reading What, we wondered, might have portraits of whiskered MPs, I watched lists, on sale in many languages all over the world, sitting on library shelves, in been the media reaction if an all-female Juliet Stevenson award the very first bookshops. As a historian, I know how *PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION REPORT, PUBLISHING IN 2021 **NIELSEN BOOKDATA. ***IPA GLOBAL PUBLISHING STATISTICS. easily women disappear. Things go PHOTOGRAPHY: SUKI DHANDA, LIZ McAULAY, MARTIN & JESSICA REFTEL EVANS, MIRRORPIX, GETTY, SPORTSPHOTO LTD./ALLSTAR, shortlist had been announced? All of Women’s Prize for Fiction (WPFF) to backwards as well as forwards. ADRIAN WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY us there that night, men and women Helen Dunmore for her exquisite novel We find ourselves, in 2022, in darkening times, where women’s rights, alike, were sure that it would have been A Spell Of Winter. equalities and access to education are being rolled back. It’s essential to ensure seen as deliberate or political. It was The rest is history. After 26 years, the that women’s stories are heard, to keep amplifying their voices and the power a joyous, ideas-filled evening and we WPFF is now acknowledged to be of great fiction. After all, as the mighty Margaret Atwood says: ‘A word after left with the spark of an idea. Perhaps the world’s largest annual celebration of a word after a word is power.’  Warrior Queens & Quiet a prize designed for women – from women’s writing. We’ve put thousands Revolutionaries: Women Who (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse will be anywhere in the world writing in of novels into the hands of millions of out in October 2022 readers and we’ve become a charity. We’ve stayed true to our founding principles, namely, to celebrate, honour and amplify women’s creative voices and to use the razzmatazz of the prize to fund a range of educational initiatives, from reading groups to our new writing programme, Discoveries. And to those who ask if we still ‘need’ a prize for women, I say: the prize has not only been successful in promoting writing by women from all over the world, but also in providing 46 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk

The literary world us over the last few years, has a fair claim but at a safe distance. to being able to So we’ll see high-concept predict the future fantasy, magical realism or dystopias that also show the indomitable nature of the human spirit. We won’t want depressing, but we will want journeys that contain a range of emotions, and the potential for the story to end in any way.’ The book world has been taking steps to diversify its mostly white, middle-class workforce, and to ensure, through the use of sensitivity readers (who check books for offensive content) that the diverse titles it publishes are getting it right. Publishers believe The next chapter this will pay dividends over the coming years – particularly as a new wave of diverse young adult readers, Alison Flood, who has written about books for more who have been driving book sales than 15 years and is comment and culture editor at through TikTok, grows up. ‘These readers the New Scientist, predicts what the future holds want books that reflect the world around for the publishing industry. them, the lives that they live and the people that they are, and I want to make F rom Emily St John Mandel’s working or calling from, rather than sure we’re publishing them,’ says Anna. eerily prescient novel Station having a separate e-reader, believes She points to an ‘increasing diversity in Eleven, set during a swine flu Miranda Jewess, editorial director at romance in the submissions that we’re pandemic and published in Viper Books: ‘People will stop having receiving, across ethnicity and sexuality’. Diversity of all kinds is something 2014, to Margaret Atwood’s terrifying multiple different sources of media, Miranda is also predicting; The Maid by vision of a misogynistic America in and the phone will become even Nita Prose, with its neurodivergent The Handmaid’s Tale, the literary world more important than it already is.’ protagonist, is ‘a sign of things to come’, has a fair claim to being able to predict What we’ll be reading over the next with more non-neurotypical heroes the future. But after having changed decade, though, is set for major and heroines set to hit our shelves. beyond all recognition over the last 25 change, believe industry For Louisa, the whole industry years, thanks to the advent of e-books insiders. Over the past two needs a shake-up. ‘Publishing and Amazon, what lies ahead for the years, readers desperate looks a bit like an old- book world itself over the next decade? for comfort while living 43% fashioned Ordnance Survey Green issues first for this paper-heavy through a pandemic map, where the agents have been treated to OF US READ AT LEAST were the church in every industry: publishers are signing up in a steady diet of cosy ONCE A WEEK FOR village and the publishers their dozens to a new industry-wide crime and ‘up lit’ were the pub,’ she says. pledge on sustainability, which will see signatories looking to achieve net zero – optimistic stories about PLEASURE ‘The map has to change. as soon as possible, and by 2050 at the human connections. ‘We’re More agents with different life latest. But there is certainly no rush to going to move on from that, experiences, ethnicity and class, predict the demise of print in favour of and want something with slightly as well as diversifying the publishing a forthcoming new device. ‘There is no darker themes,’ predicts Anna Boatman, workforce, means that we will see more death knell for the book,’ says Louisa a publisher at Little, Brown Book Group. properly diverse writing.’ Joyner, associate publisher at Faber & ‘I think there will be more complexity in And vampires! Almost two decades Faber. ‘The printed book is a fantastic the stories that people are looking for, after Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight hit our technology; it’s really resilient.’ But when rather than reassuring happy endings, shelves, Anna thinks the undead are due it comes to e-books, people are likely to because I think we might be looking for a literary revival. ‘Vampires will rise be reading on the same device they’re ways to process what has happened to again,’ she promises. goodhousekeeping.com/uk 47AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

MmWoHAer’eAKreoEPdfSPowYiUnhagSt What happens when you make a total change in direction and try something new? These four women did exactly that – and couldn’t be happier since pushing themselves out of their comfort zones

Be inspired ‘Being immersed in nature is very therapeutic’ Becky Ketley, 55, from Cheltenham, spent years working in education but, after enrolling on a garden design course to learn how to spruce up her outdoor space, her life took a new direction. Some of my earliest memories are centred around being outdoors. I remember pottering about in my granny’s garden. The plants Becky now designs gardens seemed much bigger when I was so for a living little and I’d happily get lost among I am pictured in my sister’s garden in Herefordshire, where my parents them. I loved seeing bright peonies used to live. They created the garden years ago, so the layout bloom. Still to this day, they’re my was all there, but I helped her with the planting designs. favourite flower. garden and grew fresh tomatoes, A project begins with an initial As an adult, I enjoyed gardening, but peppers, beans and cucamelons consultation. The client tells me what they would like to achieve from their I was at a loss as to how to make the for gin and tonic. garden and I’ll make moodboards to create the atmosphere of what I think most of my own large garden. I enrolled It was then that I thought to myself, they are looking for. Then, I’ll hand draw a scaled and labelled design on a 10-week garden design course ‘Maybe this is actually what I’d like to of the garden. After a final design, contractors come in to dig and build at The Cotswold Gardening School in do.’ It dawned on me that if I was going and I’ll oversee the project. February 2018, in the hope that I’d gain to move out of the world of children Every garden is different and just as exciting – from clean, contemporary the confidence to transform it. and into the adult world, this would spaces to very traditional ones. Biodiversity is also important to me. At the time, I’d be a lovely way to do it. A lot of my clients want their outdoor areas to be wildlife-friendly to recently left my job Every garden is Feeling inspired, encourage bees and hedgehogs, as a special educational I signed up to a and I think that’s a good thing. needs co-ordinator in year-long course in Being outdoors has helped in my professional garden personal life, too. I lost my husband different and justa primary school and design. It took a lot suddenly in October 2020. For as excitingI was taking a six-month a while, I couldn’t do anything, break. My career had of courage to leave but when I received a commission a few months later, I found that involved working my career behind, but getting back out into the garden really helped with my grief. I feel individually with special needs children. fortunately, my husband and I had lucky that I can spend time in people’s gardens and appreciate Seeing them develop brought me a lot of financial security. I was ready for change. the tranquillity of the outdoors. Working with nature is very mindful joy, but over time, changes to the system The course involved gaining an and rewarding – time spent relaxing in a garden is never really wasted. meant the job wasn’t what it used to be. in-depth knowledge of garden design • margaritagardendesign.com I’d begun feeling dispirited, so I’d decided – from working on live projects to to retrain as a children’s play therapist. learning how to draw 3D designs But a few days into the garden and market a business. I graduated design course, I felt like I’d found a new with a distinction and my first client calling. The course was co-ordinated was the sister of a friend, who liked by Caroline Tatham, who encouraged my mindful approach to gardening us to draw inspiration from things we and had faith in me. She had a small loved, such as artwork. I’ve always town garden and wanted something admired modernist painter Ben low-maintenance but pretty to look Nicholson’s abstract artwork, so I used at throughout the year. that as a starting point to guide my I designed a garden with lots of colour choices and textures when flowers and a vegetable patch for her I designed my first garden. I’d never grandson. When the lockdowns meant thought of myself as creative, but no landscapers were available, my son I found that I was good at it. helped me plant everything. Seeing I used what I’d learned to design the garden spring to life from my a classic English garden for myself, hand-drawn sketches to full bloom with lots of beautiful roses, delphiniums was an incredible feeling. Word soon and lupins. I also created a vegetable spread and I gained more clients. goodhousekeeping.com/uk 49AUGUST 2022 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Jane has conducted played on my mind more than 500 ceremonies because I enjoyed organising the company conferences and knew I could do it. Despite spending a fortune on advertising, I found it difficult to get the business off the ground and, eventually, I gave up. I then did some research into becoming a celebrant. I’ve always believed in doing everything I can to the best of my ability, so when I realised I could get a celebrant qualification from the National Open College Network, I immediately joined the course. Over the next three months, I completed intense online modules, classroom seminars and assessments. I learned everything from how to talk to families at difficult times to structuring funerals, weddings and baby namings and writing and delivering eulogies. At times, I did doubt whether I was doing the right thing, but my husband encouraged me to keep going and reminded me that I’d conducted my father’s funeral service well. I did my first funeral in March 2016 and my first wedding a month later. The first ones ‘Being able to help a family at are the most nerve-racking, where you feel like a rabbit caught in headlights, as you their lowest ebb is satisfying’ realise no matter how much exams prepare you, the real world isn’t as straightforward. Jane Gower, 72, from Northampton, had a 30-year career as Since then, it’s been plain sailing and I’ve conducted more than 500 ceremonies. WCEO of an electrical wholesalers and now loves being a celebrant. Being able to help a family, especially hen my mum died 16 a celebrant, I didn’t really think about at their lowest ebb, is satisfying. But what years ago, we wanted a pursuing it as a career. I love most is being around different people secular funeral because and each ceremony being unique, which my dad was an atheist. As a CEO, I conducted negotiations, means I’m constantly surprising myself. made important decisions and ran the So, we hired a humanist management side of the company. It was I’ve had cards, letters and emails from (non-religious) celebrant. He spent 20 an interesting industry to work in at the couples and families saying, ‘Thank you,’ minutes with me so I could tell him about time because it was so male dominated or ‘We couldn’t have done it without you,’ Mum and he wrote the eulogy. He didn’t and I was the only woman of that rank. which is lovely. The most heart-warming send me a copy of what he was going to But it also got a little comment was from a bride say and, on the day, he missed out half lonely and overwhelming. I’m a people whose wedding I’m doing my mum’s grandchildren. It was terrible. Despite that, I liked the this year. She said, ‘I know When my dad passed away three years job and it was allowing person, so this when I walk down the aisle, later, I was determined not to let anything me to live the life I is my dream job you will be my friend like that happen again, so I took it upon wanted. What stood out standing waiting for me.’ myself to write the eulogy and conduct for me the most was When I was a CEO, the service. I didn’t have any training or organising the annual I had to maintain a certain experience, but I really enjoyed the process. company conference. I’m a people person persona and that person wasn’t really me. At the time, I was the CEO of a and I’m good at organisation, so I loved I’m warm, welcoming and a people person. multimillion-pound electrical distributors running the event planning because it Everything that makes me a good celebrant, company, Fegime UK. I was earning was the only time I truly felt like me. I had to put to one side as a CEO, so it feels a six-figure salary, travelling across the In 2016, after staying with the company great to finally be myself and embrace my world, meeting lots of new people, and for 30 years, I finally decided to resign personality. I’ve found my dream job, and driving around in posh company cars, so and start my own business as a wedding I’m so much happier because of it. even though I enjoyed my taste of being planner. It was something that had always • my-wonderful-wedding.com 50 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AUGUST 2022 goodhousekeeping.com/uk