The book is about French words and phrases; in particular those that sound like one thing in French but turn out to mean something completely different in English. For instance: ‘un surnom’ is not a ‘surname’ but ‘a [...]
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 booksAn accompanying partner, she has lived in Africa for almost 20 years and is currently in Rwanda. Two years ago she decided to write a book based on her the workshops she creates to help expat partners find happiness and their identity while overseas. Being Belgian she was determined to produce the book in French and in English. [...] inspirationThe deal was this: they would invite me to dinner and make a French tart and in exchange I would put them in my book. There was never any doubt in my mind that there would be a book. At 20 years old I was still naïve enough to believe that dreams came true, and oddly, they [...] booksIt’s been a busy few weeks. Not only has my client, Simone Costa Eriksson’s book Moving Abroad been released but Natalie Tollenaere’s book The Art of Possibilities/L’art des Possibles has been published – in TWO languages. This is a first for me, to publish two versions at the same time. And it was a joy [...] |
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