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  The Secret Life of France (Paperback) By (author) Lucy Wadham

  

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  Short Description for The Secret Life of FranceDescribes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and the author's unfolding relationship with France. This book leads us on a journey through the French moral maze, and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects from marriage and adultery to work and race relations.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 02 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing | Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780571236114 ISBN 10: 0571236111
  • Sales rank: 76,334

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• In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship with France. Using her own personal experiences over 25 years, Lucy offers a rare, insider's view of a nation that may be deeply incompatible with ours but is also, she thinks, chronically misunderstood. In "The Secret Life of France", Lucy leads us on a journey through the French moral maze, and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects from marriage and adultery to work and race relations. By taking apart the cliches she helps us gain a better understanding of this nearest and most alien of neighbours, and suggests that on some matters we have much to learn from them.