Clarke not only understands the French, a major undertaking for anyone who isn't French but he has great sympathy for their peculiarities (I hesitate, being also a Brit, to call them failings ). This book about What, Why and How to Cope is not only hugely entertaining but serious and fair and, if one is, as Clarke says, linguistically challenged, one can get away with no knowledge of the language at all. Endearingly, his humour is often directed at himself and he never carps. Totally satisfying.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 61 Summer 2011 ) |
