By loving Maryse, I fell in love with Paris. She was an old enchantress who stalked her prey with charm, played with them for a while,...

My ex-husband, who wasn't my ex then, and my three younger children lived in the small coastal fishing village of Sete in the south of...

I fell in love with Maryse with the kind of love you feel for an innocent creature who loves and seeks love, understanding only that...

There is a newspaper cutting hanging inside a cupboard in Maryse’s kitchen. It has been very carefully cut out and pasted so that when...

I am now sleeping at Maryse’s apartment with 2,000 books. One day, when I return from school, I see Maryse talking to the people who sell...

Maryse likes me, and I am moving from an arrondissement named after Diderot, the editor of The Encyclopédie, and a hamlet called Reuilly,...

Versailles is very different from Josette’s house, but in its opulence, it is just as unfriendly. It is a good example of what infinite...

It is the morning, and I have slept in for the first time. I step out from the metro into a spring day, and I know I should love Paris in...

It is the day of the fête. In the morning, I have to clear out of the house so Josette can prepare for the 15 people coming for lunch,...

On Saturday, before the fete on Sunday, I met my friend Patricia. She is from Sete in the South of France, where Michael, our three boys,...

The week passes in a sort of daze. I am woken by someone in the bathroom at varying times very early every morning. I don’t know if it's...

I wake up at 6 am and go to the bathroom. I'm not sure if anyone is in it, but the light is on. I give a little tap on the door, and a...

This morning, I leave for Paris, and I have not slept a wink as the prospect of getting from Berlin to Paris on my own with a...

It is very early in the morning, and my young friends went to a rave last night that started at 11 pm. They wanted me to go with them,...

Jamie's friend Leo has arrived at my hotel. Leo lives in Melbourne but is presently living in Kassel, Germany with his German girlfriend...

I cannot operate the coffee machine in my new room. Many capsules have disappeared down the chute. I will wait until 6 o'clock to ring...

I woke up at 5am in my very small room where Sammie and I won't be able to pass each other at the end of the bed, so one of us will have...

Before I start, Mum and anyone else interested in the preservation of the English language, you must watch "Turn Every Page: The...

Big thank you to Charley who will post for me as he says that he would rather do that for the rest of his life than try and teach me how...