How to be a French girl /
Cleary, Rose
How to be a French girl / Rose Cleary. - 218 pages ; 20 cm
The novel follows an unnamed young woman from Southend who once dreamed of becoming an artist but now works as a receptionist in an IT company. Dissatisfied with her routine life and shallow relationships, she becomes fascinated by Gustave, a sophisticated French businessman. Her attraction turns into an obsession as she attempts to reinvent herself into the idealized “French girl” she believes he would desire. The story explores loneliness, identity, modern dating culture, creativity, and the risks people take to escape dissatisfaction and become someone new.
9781739260125
Identity and self-transformation -- Fiction
Obsession -- Fiction
823.92 CLE
How to be a French girl / Rose Cleary. - 218 pages ; 20 cm
The novel follows an unnamed young woman from Southend who once dreamed of becoming an artist but now works as a receptionist in an IT company. Dissatisfied with her routine life and shallow relationships, she becomes fascinated by Gustave, a sophisticated French businessman. Her attraction turns into an obsession as she attempts to reinvent herself into the idealized “French girl” she believes he would desire. The story explores loneliness, identity, modern dating culture, creativity, and the risks people take to escape dissatisfaction and become someone new.
9781739260125
Identity and self-transformation -- Fiction
Obsession -- Fiction
823.92 CLE