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Downtime Books-National News Petite Anglaise
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| Monday, 10 March 2008 | |
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Petite Anglaise By Catherine Sanderson Michael Joseph, February 2008: 352p. hardback The author, a former secretary in the Paris office of a British accountancy firm, achieved a measure of notoriety a little under two years ago when she was fired from her job for posting her diary, filled with cheeky gossip about her employers and tidbits about her love life, in her blog. She took the case to the prudhommes and won, and the ensuing publicity boosted the number of visitors to her site by the thousands. The next logical step was a book, and one can only conclude from reading it that her employers must have been just as stuffy as she describes them, to have been incensed by her office girl tattle. |
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