![]() ![]() It takes five years to feel comfortable, Turnbull reckons. ![]() One Australian who returned home with her French husband after two or three miserable years in France wished, having shared Turnbull's experiences, that she'd given it longer. ![]() Some say her evocative book makes them want to rush to France many thank her for expressing the loneliness and confusion of their own expat life there. She also gets letters from around the world. "But, perhaps because I'm over here, it all seems a bit abstract." More and more, though, she is recognised by people such as the Queensland couple and an Aussie bloke who said to his mates as he approached her, "OK, I'll be the dickhead. An Australian who failed French in school, she meets by chance a Frenchman and takes him up on an offer to visit him in Paris. "Obviously I'm thrilled with how the book is selling," she says. Sarah Turnbull's 'Almost French' is a real eye-opener about the realities faced by an outsider trying to make a life for herself in France. "Nothing illegal this time," she says, referring to a chapter in which they sneaked in a window, defying a tangle of red tape in true French style. ![]() She's speaking from the sixth-floor, walk-up apartment in central Paris near les Halles that she and Frederic are renovating to add a room. ![]()
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