When Memoir Became Make‑Believe: The Story of “Coffee, Tea or Me?”

Coffee, Tea or Me? is presented as a book of memoirs by two airline stewardesses — Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones — but it turns out those voices were fictitious. The book was written by Donald Bain, who at first was not credited as the author. Framed as uninhibited reminiscences, the work occupies a curious place between publicity, persona and authorship: it reads like a candid recollection while its narrators were creations, and its true writer remained initially anonymous.