The Bloody English Women Of The Maison Puce - Poche

Alice Barnes, the wrong aide of fifty, and recently dumped after twenty-vine years of marriage, has been seduced by a fantasy. It's the image of the Côte d'Azur - that land of year-round sunshine and turquoise sea, palm trees and café society. But when she impulse-buys a tiny studio flat on the Riviera, the fantasy is soon put to the test. The winter is dank, the bureaucracy impenetrable, and that spartan flat might feel and look like a second home, but it's now her home - and she's stuck with it.
As for those new 'French' neighbours in the Maison Puce - well, they're not exactly neighbourly, nor exactly French...