Diva UK – September 2019

How To Be A Gentlewoman

CARRIE LYELL LEARNS HOW

TO LEVEL UP HER LIFE FROM

A WOMAN WHO HAS

Lotte Jeffs is an impressive woman.

I’ve watched her career flourish from

afar, endlessly impressed by the

writer, editor and creative director’s

Insta-perfect life. She is who I want to

be when I grow up. So when I heard

Lotte was writing her debut book, a

personal memoir-come-witty self-

help guide, I couldn’t wait to get my

hands on a copy. Pitched as a “gentle

antidote to a brutal world” and a

celebration of soft power, this seemed

the perfect cheat sheet with which to

level up my life.

But the Lotte I speak to on the

phone is very different to the Lotte

in How To Be A Gentlewoman. She

might seem like she’s got her shit

sorted in the book, but it’s a little

more complicated than that, it turns

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