Bordeaux Housewives

Author(s): Daisy Waugh

Location(s): Bordeaux

Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Era(s): Modern

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Bordeaux Housewives is a romantic comedy combining a heady mix of sunshine, sex, Sancerre and secrets. When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious countryside of France they have no idea just how much their lives are going to change.

For in addition to the culture shock, they have been selected to appear in a reality TV show about their Good Life lifestyle. But they also have a secret life which they need to hide from the cameras…

Meanwhile, at the local bar, another expat is finding that local attractions amount to more than wine, cheese and sunflowers…

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Escape from Brixton to Bordeaux with the Haunt family and settle down in with them in La Grande Forge, “a long white cottage with pale blue shutters, and they eat fresh oysters every Sunday...

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Amusing, light chick-lit read with charming characters, tongue-in-cheek humor, and a carefree, casual style akin to that of Sophie Kinsella

Voiced in a playful, darkly comical tone, Bordeaux Housewives lives up to the words in its title in that it’s airy and exquisite-Bordeaux-and at the same time, fierce and dangerously thrilling-housewives. While I will be the first to acknowledge...