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Guess the tales Jemima Goldsmith will tell...
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Guess the tales Jemima Goldsmith will tell...
Everyone is writing a novel these days – and worse, getting it published, reviewed, even read – and so is Jemima, former spouse of hard man of Pakistan Imran Khan and current squeeze of wavy-haired English smoothie Hugh Grant. The tales she will tell, if she tells all, can only be guessed at, but a “friend” of the beautiful, blond, long-limbed millionaire daughter of randy old Sir James Goldsmith has revealed this homespun truth: “They say that all first novels tend to be a bit autobiographical.”
While Imran surely shivers in a fierce Pakistani summer at the news his wife of nine years will now be putting pen to paper, one can only wonder why Jemima has revealed her unquenchable thirst for the literary limelight.
In fact, like a latter-day, female, white and privileged version of Martin Luther King, Jemima, apparently has “a dream”. Her obliging ‘friend’ is quoted to say “It’s been a long-cherished dream to write a novel...she loves writing and she writes very well...” Jemima’s confidante declined to reveal what it is about, insisting that the trans-continental yummy-mummy who made the salwar kameez a designer item was «very superstitious and won’t let on to anyone what it is about.»
Commentators said the Jemima novel, due to be published on some unspecified date in the future, was certain to excite interest for her any likely pointers to the life and loves of Imran Khan, her late Eurosceptic father Sir Jimmie and his harem of mistresses and misbegotten children. Many believe Jemima’s dream literary venture merely underlines the booming popularity of the novel as the fashionable genre of choice.
Fulminated one respected literary commentator recently, from chick lit to the Booker, the novel has become the genre to which everyone who thinks they have a book in them aspires. “That old cocktail of motives - love, money, fame - retains its intoxicating allure. It adds up to a bewildering total of anything between 50 and 100 novels of quality published in the English-speaking world every year, which is roughly one or two per week.”
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