- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Gibson Square; New Edition edition (24 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903933773
- ISBN-13: 978-1903933770
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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What do you do when a semi-feral dog bites off the nose of a guest at your first French dinner? What when the well dries up? What do you say to your French mistress? Where to go if you don't want to see any compatriots? In More More France Please Helena Frith Powell writes candidly about the real-life stories of herself and fellow Brits in France. She reveals wittily what really goes on behind the beautiful limestone facades in France s loveliest villages.
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Rude Awakening!,
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This review is from: More More France Please: The Little Lusts and Secrets of Life in France [NEW UPDATED EDITION 100 NEW PAGES] (Paperback)
This book could have been a whole lot better or bigger but with that said it does a very valuable job. If you, like many in Britain dream about living a more rewarding day to day existence and think that a move south will achieve that, then you should definitely read it first.
The unpalatable truth is that if you don't have a reason to go then don't and that point is made very clear in text of this book. Helena Frith-Powell makes a lot of the fact that work is as important after the move, probably more so and that it is a lot less easy to make work work in France. She also makes it clear that any problems that may arise apart from work are magnified ten-fold by the cultural divide. The sun shines no more kindly on our everyday struggles in France than in the UK and being unhappy in beautiful surroundings where you are used to relaxing on holiday can be even worse. Ultimately what the book does hammer home is the necessity to prepare. Choose the right moment to go and be aware of what you are really getting into. There is clearly no urgency to jump on a property bandwagon as house prices in France are fairly static. I was fascinated by the comments about the hierarchical ex-pat community that already exists. Yes - the English are hard at work recreating the class system which many people are running away from! A large part of the ex-pat population seem to be escapees from screw ups and re-inventers and these are the people that you are going to rub up against along the way. The section about integration is good reading for those who are hoping to become proper citizens of their new country though this is with the caveat that you will always be the English however hard you try. Taking children to France is a positive but only if they are the right age and be prepared to relinquish their identity to Napoleon. If you read this alongside Peter Mayles first book, which must have launched so many relocations, then you get a rounded view of the possibilities and the pitfalls. One is naive and inspirational, the other practical down to earth. Most of those who dream about relocating are really wishing they had a second home to escape the less exiting aspects of the UK climate but not being able to afford the luxury, move instead. This book will convince more people that ultimately a holiday home is a more appropriate solution and if it can't be achieved for financial reasons then it is far better to take the cheaper option of frequent holidays and yes, HPF sets us straight about the pipe dream of paying for your new French house with rental income. It would be cynical to say but I think in the back of her mind HPF was trying to stop would be `migrators' and in that she has done a good job. Why would the French want us unless we do something that enhances their lives? Why should they want hordes of gainfully unemployed semi-retired families wandering round their villages gawping at the market stalls and easing up the price of their property. Forewarned is forearmed and More French should definitely be part of your armoury.
34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
new edition of previous title,
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This review is from: More More France Please: The Little Lusts and Secrets of Life in France [NEW UPDATED EDITION 100 NEW PAGES] (Paperback)
You should be aware that this book is a revised edition of the 2005 title "More France Please, We're British". I received a copy of the new title not realising this so if you have a copy of "More France...." you won't want this as well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Boring and Badly Written,
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This review is from: More More France Please: The Little Lusts and Secrets of Life in France [NEW UPDATED EDITION 100 NEW PAGES] (Paperback)
While I thought 2 lipsticks and a lover was a pleasant read, this was not. As another reviewer noted, there were errors, her use of quotes and examples often had no point, and there is an undertone of anti-french sentiment which she always somehow covers up by saying that she "loves living in France". The title is quite misleading (little lusts and secrets?), and was not very useful. I read only the first few chapters, but felt that it was a waste of time.
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