A witty, poignant and candid memoir of one woman's dream of shedding her English inhibitions and becoming French.
After leaving university, Emma Beddington practised as a lawyer. Today she is a freelance writer, who has contributed to ELLE, Red, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Condé Nast Traveller and O Magazine. She is also the author of the acclaimed blog Belgian Waffle (www.belgianwaffling.com). She lives in Brussels with her husband and two sons.
Tender, funny, sad, and brutally honest, I devoured this book like
I would have eaten Parisian patisserie. I loved every page (as did
my husband!)
*JoJo Moyes*
'I loved Emma Beddington's funny, poignant memoir, which made me
laugh - and cry.
*Nina Stibbe*
We'll Always have Paris is a joy. So much resonated as I read it in
a café wearing my Breton t-shirt.
*Cathy Rentzenbrink*
I totally loved this gorgeous, funny, honest, adorable book:
formidable.
*Jenny Colgan*
Searingly funny, searingly honest, searingly good cake.
*Sarah Franklin, Costa Prize judge and director of Short Stories
Aloud*
I loved We'll Always Have Paris. Love, grief & cake. Often sad and
hellishly funny.
*Lissa Evans, author of A Crooked Heart*
Charged with love, longing and lots of cake, Emma Beddington's warm
and witty memoir of her romance with the City of Light is a treat
for anyone whose Parisian dreams encompass café crème at Les Deux
Magots, macaroons at Ladurée ... and instinctively recognising the
gender of a lave-vaisselle.
*Kathryn Flett*
Extremely funny, emotionally acute and often very moving. Writing
about yourself and your life without giving in to navel gazing or
self- interest is a rare trick and one Emma Beddington pulls off
with aplomb; instead she turns her sideways gaze on the world and
its absurdities with a wink and a wry smile. We'll Always Have
Paris has all this, but in addition a big dose of genuine warmth
and wisdom.
*Jess Ruston*
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.
*Red*
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