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She has a job in Paris, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and an adorable apartment with breathtaking views. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmed by the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end job, Catherine reads an article about starting an online diary, and on a slow day at work-voilą-Petite Anglaise is born. But what begins as a lighthearted diversion, a place to muse on the fish-out-of-water challenges of expat life, soon gives way to a raw forum where Catherine shares intimate details about her relationship, her discontents, and her most impulsive desires. When one of her readers-a charming Englishman-tries to get close to the girl behind the blog, Catherine's real and virtual personas collide, forcing her to choose between life as she knows it and the possibility of more.

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"A digital-age fairytale in Paris. Petite Anglaise is light, frank and tremendous fun... Like all good writers, her work simply enables us to appreciate the diversity, possibilities, trials, and beauty of life."
-- Guardian

"Magnificent ... Sanderson has a novelist's gift for capturing certain eternal situations."
--Financial Times

"A winner...Written with breathtaking candor ... it's the story of a love affair--not so much with Mr. Frog, their adorable blonde daughter Tadpole, or even her elusive lover James, but with Paris itself ... Like Peter Mayle, she brings France to life on the page."
--Daily Express

"A wonderful read."
--InStyle

"Petite Anglaise describes daily life in Paris to a T, interspersing bittersweet domestic scenes with an amusing picture of French manners."
--Conde Nast Traveler
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'I hear returning footfalls and moments later anxious fingers prise my arm from my face; a pair of grey-blue eyes gaze questioningly into mine.

"Maman?"

"Mummy's got a bad, bad headache," I mumble feebly, turning on to my side and burying my feverish face into the cool pillow instead.

But there is no pain, at least not in a physical sense. I am, quite simply, stricken with horror; aghast at the thought of the upheaval I am poised to inflict on our little family. And yet, at the same time, every cell in my body vibrates at a higher frequency. Never have I felt so guilty, nor so intoxicatingly alive.'

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  • PublisherSpiegel & Grau
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0385522819
  • ISBN 13 9780385522816
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages339
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