CREATESPACE Heads Above Water: Staying afloat in France

You’ve been up the Eiffel Tower; feasted on fat, orange, mussels at the harbour in Honfleur; seen the Bayeux Tapestry; picked lavender in Provence; biked through Burgundy; slurped Saint-Julien on the banks of the Gironde.Now pick up your family and drop them into Limousin; buy a series of ruins; send three children who don’t speak French to school while you renovate your hovel; develop a gite with fishing lakes; populate them with 40kg monster carp and because life is so simple buy a handful of incalcitrant llamas because llama trekking would be…well…fun.Heads Above Water is a wholly original take on France. Like peeling a French onion Stephanie Dagg exposes layer upon layer of uniquely funny insights into the intricate workings of the social and bureaucratic systems where an incomplete building application elicits a ‘gallic shrug’ which invokes the spectre of a date with the guillotine.The ultimate expat guide to France as you’ve never seen it before.A delightful read.

This is an excellent book and an entertaining read -- a real page-turner. I highly recommend it!

Terrible editing and many typo's. do they not proof read? Constantly referring to her children as the kids, such a horrible expression , Kids are baby goats. Not a bad read.

I enjoyed reading this book.

I read this whilst on holiday in the Limousin region (where the book is set). Loved it - easy read, funny anecdotes, and most of all a great insight into the difficulties and joys of living in France.