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Juliana de Nooy studies the popularity of Australian memoirs about living in France. Through close reading and cultural analysis, she asks why France becomes a setting for imagined changes in lifestyle, identity and personal possibility.
Chapters explore the relationships between these books and travel writing, distance, belonging, romance, class and language. Food, wine and gender provide further ways of comparing the narratives and the expectations their authors bring to French life. The book also considers what these accounts reveal about Australia, connecting individual stories with broader patterns in publishing and cultural identification. References and an index accompany the analysis.