40 Frenchie Chez Moi Stories (France Short Stories)

By Marie A. Connolly

"Highly Mobile Woman is what they call me."

For over a decade, Australian author Marie A. Connolly has been moving around France, chasing creative projects, affordable accommodation, and a place to belong.

The result? Forty funny, candid, and wonderfully chaotic stories about life behind the postcard image of France.

In Paris, she lives everywhere from stylish apartments to tiny ground-floor studios where four strangers share one toilet.

In the Alps, she works ski seasons and stays in staff accommodation ranging from luxury chalets to mould-infested basement rooms.

In the South of France, she finds herself surrounded by luxury villas and Mediterranean glamour while living in pristine hotel staff accommodation known as Alcatraz.

Along the way, she encounters flirtatious salesmen, unstable neighbours, hair-product obsessions, eccentric landlords, strange roommates, and the everyday madness of French living.

These stories are not glossy travel fantasies. They are the real France: crowded metros, awkward cultural moments, beautiful neighbourhoods, cramped living conditions, chance encounters, humour, freedom, and survival - all told with warmth, wit, and brutal honesty.

40 Frenchie Chez Moi Stories is part travel memoir, part comedy writing, and part love letter to the strange adventure of building a life abroad.

If you enjoy:

funny travel memoirsexpat storiesParis lifeFrench culturewomen's memoirsdiary-style storytelling

For anyone who's ever dreamed of living in France - or wondered what it's really like once the holiday ends.

Please note this book was previously published under the pen name Paris Connolly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2488524875
• ISBN13: 9782488524872
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Afnil
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"