Petite Anglaise

Catherine Sanderson is a 35 year old Brit who was bitten by the French bug while still at school and has never looked back. She has been living in Paris for more than a decade, working first as a teaching assistant and later as a bilingual PA, and has been blogging under the pseudonym Petite Anglaise since July 2004. She lives in the working class cultural melting pot of Belleville with her daughter Tadpole.

Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom of her metro-boulot-dodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise. As she lays herself bare about the confines of her stagnant relationship with Mr Frog, about Paris life and about the wonder and pain that comes with being a mother, she finds a new purpose to her day. As Petite Anglaise, Catherine regains her confidence and makes internet friends, including one charismatic and single Englishman who lives in Brittany, James. And after meeting James one evening in a bar, Catherine feels she has regained her ability to fall in love, too. 
 
Petite Anglaise weaves together many strands which have already struck a chord with the thousands of readers who love her blog: a "fish out of water" perspective of Paris life, the raw emotional drama of a whirlwind, adulterous romance and an honest appreciation of the hardships of single motherhood.

Catherine Sanderson

Name: Sally Marshall 
Status: single mother 
Age: 32 
Nationality: ten years in France, yet still English through and through 
I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four years old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread... 
 
So reads Sally's ad, posted on a French online dating site called Rendez-Vous. Sally left Nicolas, her French boyfriend of ten years and Lila's father, after she discovered that he was having an affair with his secretary. Six months have now passed, and although most of the time she feels as if she's just dashing around like a headless chicken, she's beginning to bounce back. But making a new start is fraught with complications. As she meets freshly single Frédéric for a drink, spends the night with charmer Manu and runs away from ex-pat Marcus, she wonders: can she find a way to reconcile motherhood with single womanhood? To what extent can she keep Lila and her love life separate? And is she truly ready to turn her back on Nicolas?

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