New book: Annie Lennox and the frogs – a letter to her sixteen-year-old self
“Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self” is a new 128 pages book put together by Joseph Galliano answering the question “If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say?”
In Dear Me, some of the world’s best loved personalities have written just such a letter. Dear Me includes letters from three knights, a handful of Oscar winners, a bevy of Baftas, an intrepid explorer, a few teenage pop stars, an avid horticulturalist, pages and pages of bestselling authors, a dishy doctor, a full credit of film directors, a lovey of top actors, a giggle of comedians and an Archbishop!
The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity and heartbreak, but they all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be…. Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Paul O’Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Alan Carr, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn , Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono, Emma Thompson… to name but a few.
The book is available now. For the front the cover with Annie’s name click the picture on the left.
Annie Lennox tells her 16-year-old self about the hard times that are ahead (“[...] and it’s not going to get much better … for years.”), the many changes to come (“You’ll never live in Scotland again, but you will travel the world and the seven seas [...]“) and about lessons she learned about men (“There are mainly ‘frogs’ actually – almost totally. Don’t even bother thinking about kissing them”). Annie Lennox’s letter is in original handwriting and like all of the ones featured in the book, decorated with a photo of the writer. In her case she has chosen a black and white picture of herself taken when she was still in school (and 16 years old?). For a preview of the double page with the letter click left (most pages are colourful, picture and letter sizes vary).
The book is really not expensive, very pretty and a good, sometimes amusing, interesting, sad read – recommended to get for yourself or as a present for someone else. £1 from each book will be given to the Elton John Aids Foundation. You can get your copy now from the USA, the UK or Germany – please click below:
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