Absolutely loved this book!
By Stacy / Spinebreakers Crew
It’s a lovely sense of awe when you fall truly, madly, deeply in love with a book. Petite Anglaise is one of those books, a book that captivates you into the world of an English blogger in Paris, along with her abundance of ‘creatures’: Mr Frog and Tadpole, AKA le famille, her family.
Writing under the pseudonym Petite Anglaise the author of the book, Catherine Sanderson, opens the curtain onto her life and propels the reader through the highs and lows of her everyday life; allowing the reader to really sense every emotion radiating from the book, be that happy or sad. Since 2004 she has gathered a steady flow of visitors to her site, making it one of the most popular and best-loved British blogs.
However Catherine Sanderson herself bears some similarities to me personally, in fact her dreams, aspirations and obsession with all things French is welcoming and inviting as I myself have ‘fallen hopelessly, irrationally in love’, but instead with all things Hispanic.
Some readers may not want to indulge in this book, purely due to the fact it is so true to life from beginning to end; anyone hoping for a fantasy in the forms of fairies and goblins better stay clear.
But for a dosage of light reading (and for anyone, like me, with the dream of living in a foreign country) it’s a story that allows you to glide effortlessly into the plot as if you were merely a passer-by standing on the edge of Rue de la Roquette, laden with a baguette and sporting a beret, desperately trying to blend in with the Parisian chic.