Merde Happens

Merde Happens

by StephenClarke (Author)

Synopsis

Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini. But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone. And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 24 Mar 2008

ISBN 10: 0552773514
ISBN 13: 9780552773515
Book Overview: Q: What happens when an Englishman, an American, and a French woman drive across America in a Mini? A: Merde Happens ...
Prizes: Shortlisted for Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2008.

Media Reviews
Done more for the Entente Cordiale than any of our politicians * Daily Mail *
Must-have comedy-of-errors diary about being a Brit abroad * Daily Mirror *
Edgier than Bryson, hits harder than Mayle * The Times *
Author Bio
Stephen Clarke lives in France. He has experimented with Gauloises, petanque and suppositories, but only as research for his writing. His first novel, A Year in the Merde, which introduced Paul West was first self-published in Paris where it became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and has now been translated into nineteen languages including French.