My Thoughts -As you can see, the UK paperback is just stunning.

Also, I love how there are sections to the book dedicated to a particular student and tutor alongside a picture that represents their journey. The book also includes a map which allows you to keep up with them. A Very nice touch.

I have missed my adult reads. Although, I didn't realise how much until now.

This book made me laugh a whole lot. I actually giggled!

FRENCH LESSONS tells the story of three Americans who come have just come to Paris and are still finding their way around. The story follows them as they spend time with their French tutors.

I have to admit. I'm quite smitten with this book.

There's a lot of sex, and a whole lot of talk about sex *which took a little getting used to at first* but once you really relax and settle into the book, you realise just how enjoyable it really is. It's a great form of escapism. These individuals, in this big beautiful city. Free, sophisticated people that indulge daily in sex, delicious food and freedom. But there is more to these people than just sex. Apart from the fact that they are obviously flawed, they also seem to all be battling with their own demons. And it's not until the tutors meet their students, that each individual is able to walk away a changed person and better for it.

I did find it hard to get my head around this concept of people sharing their partners with others. With the casual cheating. I didn't understand why it wasn't a big deal to them. Why anyone would want to be with someone who was already in a relationship. But I do know that this goes on, so it would be naive of me to simply take it as merely fiction and put it at the back of my head. But it was something that I struggled with understanding. Maybe I just need a few more years :)

I think each reader will see the book as something different. A guilty pleasure, sex - crazed, flawed people, or a book with a bit of everything. But what I can guarantee you is that FRENCH LESSONS is past faced and a delicious read that had me in a fit of giggles, and one that I quickly lost myself in. 

There was one moment in the book which I really loved. When Nico and Josie go see the gallery of Marilyn Monroe photos named "the last sitting." I knew every photo they described and it was sort of wonderful because I felt like I was experiencing it right alongside them. And hearing their thoughts on particular photos put a lot of wondering questions into perspective for me.

"She is tragic, no?" The French tutor asks. Josie looks up. Marilyn Monroe stares back at her, her mouth slightly open, her eyes half closed. She looks drunk on sex, on booze, on death. She looks luscious and ripe and ready to die. Josie's eyes fill up. She steps back, away from the seductive stare. 

"She killed herself three days after this photo shoot," Nico says reading from the brochure. "You can see that she was ready ," Josie says. "To die? "To give herself up to death. It looks like she was already dying."