Almost French

ALMOST FRENCH: LOVE AND A NEW LIFE IN PARIS: Sarah Turnbull: Gotham Books: Nonfiction: 304 pages

At the age of 27 Sarah Turnbull took a year-long leave of absence from her job in Australia to travel abroad. Her plans changed, though, when she met a Frenchman in Bucharest and accepted his offer to stay with him in Paris. The two fell in love and Turnbull moved permanently to France. Turnbull’s struggles to understand codified Parisian society, find a job, and feel at home as an expatriate are presented in funny vignettes of culture clash that will tempt readers to set out on their own adventures.

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