Pippa Middleton - Party Pooping Sale Figures Greet Pippa MIddleton's New Book

Party Pooping Sale Figures Greet Pippa MIddleton's New Book

Pippa Middleton lives a pretty carefree life, so it stands to reason that she’d make her first literary endeavor a party planning book. She does, after all, pretty much do nothing else. You don’t have to be a judge on the Man Booker Prize to have been able to predict that the eventual tomb, titled Celebrate, would be about as appetizing as a frozen canapé however and, following a critical mauling, the book has flopped sales-wise as well.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Amazon had it listed as 177^th on the book list yesterday morning (November 12), with the price of the book already slashed from $40 to under $20. The book has apparently sold just 2000 copies in its first week and sits below Peppa Pig’s Christmas Wish, in our opinion a much superior read. It’s grim news for publishers Penguin who’d paid out a $635,000 advance to the royal socialite for the book.

The Daily Telegraph has amusingly pointed out a few of the more banal ‘tips’ given by Middleton in the book, a couple of our favourites including the suggestion that turkeys, because of their size, are perfect for feeding large gatherings (you mean like Christmas, Pippa?) as well as a handy new game where you wrap up a parcel and ask people to sit in a circle passing around until it’s unwrapped. I wonder what on earth you could call that passing-based parcel game?