A memoir from one of the world’s great handbag designers: a hugely successful entrepreneur, Anya is also a trustee of the Royal Academy and of the Design Museum; she’s a Greenpeace ambassador and CBE too. Her energy, design vitality and commitment are legendary. In this book she shares her first half century, the joys and complexities of an extremely busy life that includes five children as well as her global business – mentoring, parenting, step-parenting, self-care of body and mind, decision-making, leadership, sustainability, kindness, trusting one’s own judgement, fears, doubts, hopes and joys. It’s about being a woman, a human being, and the concomitant challenges; it doesn’t list her achievements, the articles in Vogue, or the chronology of her business; her interest in fashion is about what it makes a person feel, rather than its frilliness. Abounding in good sense and optimism, the book is very personal and very generous.
