Book description
Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best
not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going très wrong:
He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes
in two to fit them in the kitchen.
His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a
national strike - and it could be all his fault.
His Parisian business partner is determined to close their tea-room.
And thinks that sexually harrassing his female employees is a basic
human right.
And Paul's gorgeous ex-girlfriend seems to be stalking him.
Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises
that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan...
Stephen Clarke
lives in France, where he divides his time between writing and not
writing. His first novel,
A Year in the Merde
, originally became a word of mouth hit in Paris in 2004, and is now
published all over the world. Since then he has published three more
bestselling Merde novels, as well as
Talk to the Snail
, an indispensable guide to understanding the French, and
1000 Years
of Annoying the French
, in which he investigates what has
really
been going on since 1066. A
Sunday Times
bestseller in hardcover,
1000 Years of Annoying the French
went on to become one of the top ten bestselling history books in
paperback in 2011.
