Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready to go stellar! Publication timed for major trade promotions including summer reading and airport holiday exodus. In the bestselling tradition of Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun, Chris Stewart's A Parrot in the Pepper Tree or Peter Mayle - but without the pile of stones! Funny, perceptive and poignant Almost French is an often hilarious mixture of a young woman's personal memoir and armchair travel. A spectacular example of culture clash - and a happy ending.
Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready to go stellar! Publication timed for major trade promotions including summer reading and airport holiday exodus. In the bestselling tradition of Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun, Chris Stewart's A Parrot in the Pepper Tree or Peter Mayle - but without the pile of stones! Funny, perceptive and poignant Almost French is an often hilarious mixture of a young woman's personal memoir and armchair travel. A spectacular example of culture clash - and a happy ending.
Sarah Turnbull is a freelance writer. and formerly a television journalist with SBS, she began working in print media after moving to Paris from Sydney eight years ago. Since then she has been writing regularly for magazines ranging from the Weekend Australian Magazine to Australian Gourmet Traveller and she is contributing editor to marie claire. In the 1998 MPA awards Sarah was named Feature Writer of the Year for three investigative stories published in marie claire. As a student at the Australian National University, Sarah studied Politics, Fine Art and French. She dropped French after failing the subject during her first year.
A funny, heart-warming, romantic and poignant tale of fitting in...
will appeal to the latest generation of Francophiles dreaming of
starting a new life in France.
*Living France*
An entertaining tale of being a fish out of water in one of the
most magical cities in the world.
*Everything France*
Turnbull pulls no punches when it comes to describing life among
her new countrymen and is refreshingly direct about her own
failings as perceived by the Parisians. Required reading for anyone
contemplating a spot of French leave.
*Marie Claire*
Best, most seductive and funniest travel memoir this summer is
Sarah Turnbull's Almost French, a novel twist on an Australian
twenty-something back-packer's romantic liaison with a very French
Frenchman and the howling differences in language, customs and
expected behaviour.
*What's On in London*
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