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& y 'What begins as a superior lyrical travel guide transforms into a tender love story and a very personal memoir of a disastrous affair5 Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month Le village is a small town at the southwesternmost tip of Francé. Here a young Englishwoman feli in love with Francé, the French and one Frenchman in particular. In her seductive, lyrical and witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes not as an expat but as someone adopted by the villagers as one of their own. By Stefan, the Maoist tennis fanatic, who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi, the chic boutique owner who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends; and by Luc, the crumpled cowboy painter and part-time dentist, who comes to fembody both the joys and the difficulties of transplanting oneself into someone else's country, culture and heart. 'In Helen Stevenson's memoir of an ill-fated love affair . . . sex and gossip help pass the time. There are affairs, but alsó histrionic jealousy,... Tovább

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& y 'What begins as a superior lyrical travel guide transforms into a tender love story and a very personal memoir of a disastrous affair5 Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month Le village is a small town at the southwesternmost tip of Francé. Here a young Englishwoman feli in love with Francé, the French and one Frenchman in particular. In her seductive, lyrical and witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes not as an expat but as someone adopted by the villagers as one of their own. By Stefan, the Maoist tennis fanatic, who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi, the chic boutique owner who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends; and by Luc, the crumpled cowboy painter and part-time dentist, who comes to fembody both the joys and the difficulties of transplanting oneself into someone else's country, culture and heart. 'In Helen Stevenson's memoir of an ill-fated love affair . . . sex and gossip help pass the time. There are affairs, but alsó histrionic jealousy, melodramatic bust-ups and any amount of unrequited lust ... A plausible and sometimes affectionate portrayal of one slice of French life5 Independent on Sunday 'As beguiling and as enigmatically seductive a piece of writing as you could ask for ... A beautifully tactile and reflective meditation on the outsider's experience of a community' The Times 'A startlingly originál work' Harpers & Queen, Book of the Month 'Clever, gripping and elegantly written' Independent Vissza