Dear John: The Road To Pelindaba: The Unexpected Life Story of Mark Constantine

Dear John: The Road To Pelindaba: The Unexpected Life Story of Mark Constantine by Jeff Osment. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780992708269.

When a TV interviewer asked Lush co-founder Mark Constantine OBE what motivated him, the head of the GBP1 billion global cosmetics retailer Lush answered, `his entrepreneurs wound. Mark had been abandoned by his father as a baby and he had spent the rest of his life trying to impress a man who had disappeared in Kenya in 1954. Fifty eight years later, on Marks sixtieth birthday, his lifelong friend, Jeff Osment, whom he had known since Cub Scouts, presented Mark with his lost family history. Jeff had spent nine months secretly tracing the Constantine family tree, looking for information that might uncover the whereabouts of Marks father and whether he was still alive. Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba tells the story of Mark and Jeff growing up together. From being the biggest product supplier to The Body Shop, to his failed mail order business Cosmetics To Go, to the rise of Lush, this book will take readers on a journey through Marks life in business as Jeff also sets out to find Marks missing father. From the sleepy Dorset coast to a nuclear facility in South Africa, friendships will be forged, perfume made and the past uncovered.