Petite Anglaise: A True Story - Hardcover

Sanderson, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385522800 ISBN 13: 9780385522809

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, 2008

Synopsis

A lifelong Francophile who lands a job in Paris and a handsome Frenchman as a husband, the author describes how she dealt with motherhood, a stale romance, and the daily grind of city life by starting a blog under the name Petite Anglaise, which became an outlet for her reflections on expatriate life, her most intimate desires, her personal identity, and her quest to integrate her real life and her virtual one. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

'Addictively readable'
-- Mail on Sunday

'I loved it' -- India Knight

'Magnificent, a wonderful comedy . . . Sanderson has a novelist's gift for capturing eternal situations' --Financial Times

'Written with breathtaking candour. A winner' --Express

'Wry and often wise' --Independent

From the Back Cover:

'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.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385522800
• ISBN 13: 9780385522809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292