The Ambassador's Wife's Tale

A memoir of life as a British ambassador's wife amid the upheavals of the late 1960sThe year that Julia Miles got married and so became part of the British government's Foreign Office machine was a seminal year in world politics. 1968 saw the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Baader-Meinhof gang introducing modern terrorism to Europe, and three hijackings launching a spate of terror in the air. Civil unrest by students in Paris and massive general strikes almost brought down the French government and a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London against the Vietnam War ended in violence and injury. Her book is set against this background of insecurity and upheaval which has endured until the present. Julia entertains and informs with a series of vignettes which throw light into previously unseen corners of Embassy life.

Suspenseful and gripping...the last days of the Libya posting are as breathless as scenes in the Oscar-winning film Argo’ Daily Mail,Julia Miles describes with accuracy as well as with fine humour the varied, challenging and daunting tasks that wives of diplomats have to manage, often under very difficult circumstances’ Express Tribune

Julia Miles was working in the marketing department of the "Daily Mirror" when she met Oliver, who left weeks later for a two-year posting in Aden. She would marry him a year into the posting. She later became a social worker.

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