Ma Folie Francaise (My French folly) by Marisa Raoul

[Kate]

This is a very amusing story about an Australian woman (yet another) who falls in love with France and makes the move, setting up a Fawlty Towers style B&B and settling in to life in a small rural village. If you've ever fantasised about packing up your life and shifting to another continent, then beware this autobiography, it makes it sound all too romantic. Digging for truffles has never sounded so risque.
Also try Almost French, by Sarah Turnbull, an Australian journalist who went to France, accidentally married a Frenchman and forgot to come back. Very funny tale about the clash of cultures, and the efforts of this spirited but unpolished Aussie trying to make her way in sophisticated Paris.

[Thursday Mens reading group]

Tres Amusement.

[Marisa Raoul]

If its frisson you're after, perhaps you should try reading my book "Ma Folie Francaise"?
It's quite naughty and very honest! I don't mention colour coding shirts even once! Promise!

[Marisa Raoul]

Hi!
Well your book sounds quite different altogether from all the above.
I'm reading Runemarks by Joanne Harris at present. Very different indeed and quite a journey into another world. I also write children's books so I read an incredible variety of works. Research, I suppose you could call it.
Thanks for your comment and please let me know what you think once you look at mine.
Marisa

[Marisa Raoul]

Kate, It's not often that I get to see this type of discussion about my own book.
It's always fabulous to hear what people have to say, especially those I don't know.
I'm so glad you found the book amusing and I promise you it was every bit as romantic as it seemed through the pages!
Oh, and by the way, they were cepes or porcini, as the Italians call them, not truffles...although the variety of mushroom hardly mattered at the time.