Book description
Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to
accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a
Mini, while pretending to be typically British.
Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American
poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman
from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini.
But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads
west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work
is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life
becomes a Franco-American war zone.
And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war -
merde happens ...
Stephen Clarke lives in France. He has experimented with Gauloises,
petanque and suppositories, but only as research for his writing. His
first novel,
A Year in the Merde
, which introduced Paul West was first self-published in Paris where it
became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and has now been translated into
nineteen languages including French.
