**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height...' OBSERVER *** 'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read' SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD

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* Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris * Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have

About the Author

Elaine Dundy was born and raised in New York. As an actress, she worked in Paris and London, where she met her husband, the late Kenneth Tynan. THE DUD AVOCADO was her semi-autobiographical first novel, based on the year she spent in Paris. She died in April 2008.

Reviews

**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height... - OBSERVER *** 'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read'SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true - EVENING STANDARD**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height... - OBSERVER *** 'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read'SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true - EVENING STANDARD