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""Reading Nanaimo Girl is like enjoying a martini or three with Auntie Mame. The stories are colourful, global, boozy and just cheeky enough to make you envious -- and at the same time a little concerned."" -- Dana Gee, Vancouver Sun Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia in the 1930s, Prudence Emery was expected to do the right things, but shattered family expectations by going to art school in London, England, where studies sometimes took a back seat to partying. And then she found herself in the world of celebrities. From Expo 67 in Montreal to the press office at London's Savoy Hotel, Prudence met the likes of Twiggy, Noël Coward, Louis Armstrong, Petula Clark, Liza Minelli, and Edward Albee. She escorted David Frost to an interview with Sheikh Mujibar Rahman and arranged for Pierre Trudeau to attend a party where he met Barbra Streisand for the first time. It was a world so rich with stories that the Canadian Press wrote, ""If ever a job was tailor-made for a book of memoirs, Prudence Emery has it."" Nanaimo Girl is the story of a life well-lived and an encouragement to all, young and old, to get out, defy expectations, and have a rip-roaring good time.

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Full of fun and raucous tidbits about celebrity personalities, on-set moments, gaffers and gaffes, Emery gives a fascinating look into a life well-lived. - YAM, Victoria's Lifestyle Magazine There is no 'blah, blah, blah' in this book. Reading Nanaimo Girl is like enjoying a martini or three with Auntie Mame. The stories are colourful, global, boozy and just cheeky enough to make you envious -- and at the same time a little concerned. - Dana Gee - Vancouver Sun - 20200530 Memoirs, as with all forms of autobiography, are complicated animals, good ones even more so. Many historical accounts of a personal nature, written and verbal, tend to drift into I went here, I saw this, I did that - and in places, Nanaimo Girl is no different. What sets Pru's entertaining stories apart, however, is that there are so many of them. The result is that I found myself asking, Where's she going now? What's she doing? What happens next? And of course, that's the perfect chemistry of a page-turner. The Beatles once sang: 'Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?' And play she did. What a life! - Randolph Eustace-Walden - Ormsby Review - 20200429 These are bleak times, for sure, so a memoir from someone who merrily defied expectations is welcome. - NOW Magazine This breezy behind-the-scenes showbiz read is a reminder that even the brightest stars like to touch ground and get invited to play. - Liam Lacey - Literary Review of Canada - 20201001

"""Full of fun and raucous tidbits about celebrity personalities, on-set moments, gaffers and gaffes, Emery gives a fascinating look into a life well-lived."" - YAM, Victoria's Lifestyle Magazine ""Memoirs, as with all forms of autobiography, are complicated animals, good ones even more so. Many historical accounts of a personal nature, written and verbal, tend to drift into ""I went here, I saw this, I did that"" - and in places, Nanaimo Girl is no different. What sets Pru's entertaining stories apart, however, is that there are so many of them. The result is that I found myself asking, ""Where's she going now? What's she doing? What happens next? And of course, that's the perfect chemistry of a page-turner. The Beatles once sang: 'Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?' And play she did. What a life!"" - Randolph Eustace-Walden - Ormsby Review - 20200429 ""These are bleak times, for sure, so a memoir from someone who merrily defied expectations is welcome."" - NOW Magazine ""This breezy behind-the-scenes showbiz read is a reminder that even the brightest stars like to touch ground and get invited to play."" - Liam Lacey - Literary Review of Canada - 20201001 ""There is no 'blah, blah, blah' in this book. Reading Nanaimo Girl is like enjoying a martini or three with Auntie Mame. The stories are colourful, global, boozy and just cheeky enough to make you envious -- and at the same time a little concerned."" - Dana Gee - Vancouver Sun - 20200530"

There is no 'blah, blah, blah' in this book. Reading Nanaimo Girl is like enjoying a martini or three with Auntie Mame. The stories are colourful, global, boozy and just cheeky enough to make you envious -- and at the same time a little concerned. - Vancouver Sun - 20200530 These are bleak times, for sure, so a memoir from someone who merrily defied expectations is welcome. Memoirs, as with all forms of autobiography, are complicated animals, good ones even more so. Many historical accounts of a personal nature, written and verbal, tend to drift into I went here, I saw this, I did that - and in places, Nanaimo Girl is no different. What sets Pru's entertaining stories apart, however, is that there are so many of them. The result is that I found myself asking, Where's she going now? What's she doing? What happens next? And of course, that's the perfect chemistry of a page-turner. The Beatles once sang: 'Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?' And play she did. What a life! - Randolph Eustace-Walden - 20200429

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Prudence Emery was born in Nanaimo, educated in Vancouver, then lived in London, UK, and Toronto, before moving to Victoria, BC.

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