PHOTOGRAPHS: HARRY CROWDER, SOPHIA SPRING, CHARLIE HOPKINSON, COURTESY OF JESSIE BURTONQUENTIN
JONESJESSIE
BURTONThe author of two international
bestselling novels, her debut
The Miniaturist (2014) and The
Muse (2016), writes for us this
month about her forthcoming
book, The Confession.
Your boldest beauty moment
‘Cutting off all my hair when I
sold my first book. I loved the
freeing feeling of it, like I was
creating a clean slate.’
An icon who inspires you
‘Serena Williams. She is so
fearless, so passionate. She rises
after even the hardest setbacks,
changes the parameters of
what it means to be a powerful
woman, and she radiates joy.’
An era you’d love to live in
‘I have a lways t hought Vienna
at the turn of the 20th century
would be an interesting place
to live. Psychoanalysis,
exquisite coffee houses, the art
of Gustav Klimt – it would have
been glittering.’
A book you always return to
‘Ariel by Sylv ia Plat h. The
boldness and strangeness
of those poems never fail
to inspire me.’The Toronto-born
mixed-media artist, explores
themes of fashion and
femininity in her intriguing
work. With a background in
modelling, Jones studied
philosophy at Cambridge
before gaining a master’s
deg ree in i llustration f rom
Central Saint Martins in 2010.
She shows us around her
north-London home in ‘My
life, my style’.
Your boldest beauty moment
‘Various moments of
fancy-dress facial hair.’
The most beautiful place
in the world ‘ The list is end less,
but Rajasthan, Venice and Paris
can take my breath away.’
Your ultimate beauty secret
‘Brushing and braiding my hair
before bed keeps nice waves in
it and stops it getting puffy.’
An era you’d love to live in
‘Can it be a hopeful decade
in the future? One where we
have sta r ted to ta ke ca re of
the planet and there are fairer
laws governing big corporates.’AMELIA
GENTLEMANHonoured at the British
Journalism Awards as
2018’s Journalist of the Year,
Amelia Gentleman has been a
reporter for The Guardian since
- In 2017, her exposure of
the Windrush scandal – the
deportation of long-time
British residents originally from
the Caribbean – brought down
a Home Secretary. (She also
happens to be Boris Johnson’s
sister-in-law.) Ahead of the
publication of her book
The Windrush Betrayal, she
remembers the day it all began.
An icon who inspires you
‘Lois Lane (played by Margot
Kidder); if only being a reporter
were really that fun.’
The most beautiful place
in the world ‘Regent’s Park
at dusk in t he aut umn.’
An era you’d love to live in
‘Any time before the invention
of the mobile phone, Twitter
and Snapchat would do. It
would be so peaceful.’
A book you always return to
‘Books illustrated by Edward
Ardizzone take me straight
back to the happiest moments
of my childhood.’
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The British author, whose
parents were Lucian Freud and
Suzy Boyt, has published seven
books, including 2008’s My Judy
Garland Life, which is being
reissued this autumn. As a new
biopic starring Renée Zellweger
comes to cinemas, Boyt reveals
her lifelong adoration of the
Hollywood legend.
An icon who inspires you
‘The cabaret artist Meow
Meow, for her astonishing
voice and her beauty, wit
and valour. No one else
crowd-surfs with such verve
in rhinestone-studded fishnets.’
An era you’d love to live in
‘I would love to have known my
mother in the 1950s, when she
came up to London as a
teenager to go to art school.’Page 268
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