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Book Description:
Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frederic together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decided to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status. As she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quartier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering the haute couture fashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of French culture, little by little Sarah falls under its spell, maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty - seduction.
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This is a wonderful book if you love to armchair travel like myself! "For anyone who has ever traveled in Europe, enjoyed a holiday romance, dreamed of living in Paris or taken off on an adventure far from home, this is the book for you. Part travelogue, part love story, it documents the experience of an Australian journalist who moves to Paris, tries to adapt to live there, but fails miserably at times, and of the seismic impact this has on her romance with a Frenchman to whom she's now married. Highly entertaining." The Australian Women's Weekly
This is a partial autobiography of Sarah Turnbull, an Australian journalist. While on vacation in Bucharest, Sarah meets a young Frenchman who invites her to visit him for a week in Paris. Truly enlightening about how the French treat each other and their cultural differences from Americans (and Australians).
Donna V.
Nancy A. from EUGENE, OR wrote on 6/5/2006...Good read.Part love story and culture shock adjustment.Always humorous.In the style of "Under the Tuscan Sun" or the books on Provence.