We'll always have Paris : trying and failing to be French
Beddington, Emma, 1974-2016
Books, Manuscripts
As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realised that her life had one purpose: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Betty's Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary. And so she set about becoming French: she did a French exchange, albeit in Casablanca; she studied French history at university, and spent the holidays in France with her French boyfriend. Eventually, after a family tragedy, she found herself living in Paris, with the same French boyfriend and two half-French children. Her dream had come true, but how would reality match up?
Main title:
We'll always have Paris : trying and failing to be French / Emma Beddington.
Author:
Beddington, Emma, 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2016.London : Macmillan, 2016.
Collation:
343 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781447285793 (hbk)
Dewey class:
944.3610839092944.361083944.361
Local class:
944.361083 BED
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2295666