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In this delightful sequel to the best-selling comedic novel My Italian Bulldozer, Paul Stuarts travels take him to a French village, where the local restaurants haute cuisine leaves a lot to be desired.. Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.. So when Pauls eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house shes rented in the French countryside, he jumps at the chance. The two quickly befriend the locals, including their twin-sister landladies, who also own the infamous local restaurant known to be the second-worst eatery in all of France. During their stay, the restaurants sole waitress gives birth mid-dinner service and the maître d storms off after fighting with the head chef. Paul is soon drafted to improve the gastronomy of the village, while Chloe, ever on the hunt for her next romance, busies herself with distracting the handsome but incompetent chef. Could he be husband number six?. With all this local drama to deal with, Paul finds it next to impossible to focus on his writing, and thats before he learns that Chloes past is far more complicated than hed ever imagined. Paul will have to call upon al his experience - with food and with people - to bring order back to the village. And he may just learn something about family - and about himself - along the way.
About the Author
Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is now Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has written more than fifty books, including a number of specialist titles, but is best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has achieved bestseller status on four continents. In 2004 he was awarded British Book Awards Author of the Year and Booksellers Association Author of the Year. He lives in Scotland, where in his spare time he is a bassoonist in the RTO (Really Terrible Orchestra) .
