Used book – God Save the French, Stephen Clarke, Bernard Cohen

Having arrived in France to open a chain of tea rooms, Paul West (the author's alter ego) discovered the joys of our country in God save la France. After suffering some professional setbacks, he found the Frenchwoman of his dreams, but he has to put himself out for her in-laws. And even if he swears to high heaven that his mother-in-law's poisoning was not premeditated, his fiancée has not looked at him in quite the same way since...

At once sarcastic and tender, cynical and optimistic, Stephen Clarke puts his hero through the worst tribulations and seems to revel in seeing him grapple with the insurmountable obstacles that French bureaucracy, daily life in Corrèze, or the art of cooking zucchini represent for an Englishman.