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We'll Always Have Paris
Trying and Failing to Be French
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- 5,99 €
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- 5,99 €
Publisher Description
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 realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: 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, sitting outside the Café de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet, a Moleskine on the table and a Gauloise trembling on her lower lip.
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? Gradually Emma realized that she might have found Paris, but what she really needed to find was home.
Written with enormous wit and warmth, We'll Always Have Paris is a memoir for anyone who has ever worn a Breton T-shirt and wondered, however fleetingly, if they could pass for une vraie Parisienne.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We loved blogger Emma Beddington’s graceful and warm account of her enduring love affair with everything French. Thanks to Beddington’s frank charm and wonderfully detailed recollections, We'll Always Have Paris is a remarkably graceful and easy read. Beddington shares how she found her passion for pâtisserie and such at 16, after discovering a copy of French Elle at her sombre Yorkshire school. Her memoir charts her many acts, from Casablanca and first love to London and grief to Paris and motherhood.