Finery

Finery which is the regular Habit of our Judges, Nobles, and Bishops, with which upon certain Days we see them incumbered?

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

Ace of Spades has a blurb on its back cover from Paula Fox, and its coolly detached prose in some ways resembles that of her Borrowed Finery.

2007 May 24 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

In Borrowed Finery she recalled a childhood in which she lived on physical and emotional handouts after her parents put her up for adoption in infancy.

2006 December 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

She has written two elegant books about her early life, Borrowed Finery and The Coldest Winter, and both are gems.

Paula Fox: A One-Woman Antidote to James Frey « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

In Borrowed Finery she recalled a childhood in which she lived on physical and emotional handouts after her parents put her up for adoption in infancy.

Paula Fox: A One-Woman Antidote to James Frey « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

She has written two elegant books about her early life, Borrowed Finery and The Coldest Winter, and both are gems.

2006 December 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

And then her first memoir, Borrowed Finery (2001), was published to universally admiring responses.

Paula Fox 2005

And then her first memoir, Borrowed Finery (2001), was published to universally admiring responses.

Paula Fox 2005

He collected a few papers from a table Borrowed Finery and plucked, from a tangle of threads and spools in a sewing basket, a small ring with an amethyst stone that he gave me on the spot.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

After the presents were opened Christmas morning, Daddy began to drink steadily, muttering about the anticlimax of Christmas afternoons, when the light was always dreary and dull and time Borrowed Finery moved sluggishly.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001