Expat Expo 2010 - Lucy Wadham ’The Secret Life of France’
Born in London in 1964, Lucy Wadham lives with her four children in France. The Secret Life of France, a character study of her adoptive land was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the channel.
Lucy Wadham, BBC’s bestselling author reveals in “The Secret Life of France” the irresistible coquetry and why it took her a decade to adjust to being a woman in France.
She was born in London in 1964 and educated at Oxford. She lives in France with her four children. Lucy Wadham is the author of ’Greater Love’, a novel published in paperback by Faber and Faber in July 2008. She has also published ’Castro’s Dream’ (2003) and ’Lost’ (2000), which was shortlisted for the Macallan Golden Dagger Award. Her work has been optioned for the screen by John Malkovich and British actress, Emily Watson.
The Secret Life of France is an astute, elegant and on the whole insightful work about why the French are as they are. From the day she decided, aged 19, to temporarily abandon her Oxford degree in order to marry a bourgeois (and much older) French suitor and have his baby, Wadham reckons it took her fully five years before she even began grappling this great conundrum. She gets closer to resolving it here than most of us are likely to. Jon Henley # The Guardian, Saturday 1 August 2009
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