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Zusatztext Emma writes frankly and with self-deprecating humour about depression! motherhood! her Paris dreams and their soul-crushing reality! and cake. There's so much cake in this delightful! thoughtful book. Informationen zum Autor After leaving university, Emma Beddington practised as a lawyer. Today she is a freelance writer, who has contributed to ELLE , Re d , The Times , the Sunday Times , the Guardian , Condé Nast Traveller and O Magazine . She is also the author of the acclaimed blog Belgian Waffle. She lives in Brussels with her husband and two sons. Klappentext 'Honest, funny, touching' Good Housekeeping A witty, heartbreaking and patisserie-fuelled memoir of how one woman tried and failed to be French. As a gloomy teenager, Emma Beddington decided that when she grew up she was going to be French. She would be free and solitary, and sit at pavement cafés sipping un verre du vin, a notebook at the ready amidst a fug of cigarette smoke. Eventually, she found herself living in Paris with a French boyfriend and two half-French children. Her dream had come true. But it wasn't what she'd expected at all. And as she came to terms with a family tragedy, Emma began to realize that being French wasn't the answer. What she had really been looking for was home . . . 'A sumptuous ode to Gallic philosophy, patisserie and joie de vivre, and also a poignant account of relationships, loss and identity' Independent 'Emma writes frankly and with self-deprecating humour about depression, motherhood, her Paris dreams and their soul-crushing reality, and cake. There's so much cake in this delightful, thoughtful book' Sarra Manning, Red A witty, poignant and candid memoir of one woman's dream of shedding her English inhibitions and becoming French. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
