Talk To The Snail Av Stephen Clarke

<p>Have <i>you</i> been taken to what you''ve been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside, only to find there''s no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough, and been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint? Walked into an half-empty restaurant, only to be told that it''s <i>complet</i>?<br><br>If the answer to any of the above is <i>oui</i>, <i>Talk to the Snail</i> is the book for you.Find out how to get served in a restaurant; the best way to deal with French hypochondria; learn the language of love, sex and suppositories (not necessarily in that order); it''s all here in this funny, informative, seriously useful guide on how to get what you <i>really</i> want from the French.<br><br>With advice on essential phrases and bons mots to cover all eventualities, and illustrated with witty real-life anecdotes, <i>Talk to the Snail</i> is a book that no self-respecting Francophile - or Francophobe - can afford to be without.<br><br>Do