Almost French - A new life in Paris

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A delightful new twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour... Lire la suite
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A delightful new twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour - a charming true story of what happens when Sarah meets a very French Frenchman. Backpacking around Europe, twenty-something Sarah Turnbull meets Frédéric and impulsively accepts his invitation to visit him for a week in Paris. Eight years later, she is still there - and married to him.
The feisty Sydney journalist swaps vegemite for vichyssoise and all things French, but commits the fatal errors of bowling up to strangers at classy receptions, helping herself to champagne, laughing too loudly and (quelle horreur!) rushing out for a baguette in her "pantalons de jogging". But Paris' maddening, mysterious charm proves irresistible and Sarah makes spectacular progress. She fends work as a freelance journalist, learns to survive Parisian dinner parties and how to deal with grim-faced officialdom.
As she navigates the highs and lows of Parisian life, covering the haute couture fashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, Sarah succeeds in becoming "almost French."

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/09/2006
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    1-85788-370-5
  • EAN
    9781857883701
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    309 pages
  • Poids
    0.315 Kg
  • Dimensions
    13,0 cm × 20,0 cm × 2,0 cm

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Biographie de Sarah Turnbull

Despite having failed French in her first year at University, journalist Sarah Turnbull moved to France from Sydney in the mid 1990s. Her articles appear regularly in a variety of magazines such as Marie Claire, for which she is a contributing editor. She lives in Paris with her husband, Frédéric and their dog, Maddie.

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