Merde at the Paris Olympics

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some really excellent one-liners and a great story. Ian Moore author Death & Croissants.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This novel is hysterical! Rebecca Leffler writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Englishman Paul West is living in Paris (where he arrived long before Emily by the way) and he's gearing up for the 2024 Olympics.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paul accepts a job with a French group who are campaigning to get </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>pétanque</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> adopted as an official Olympic event. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In Paul's opinion throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport - it's more an excuse for Provençal men to avoid cooking dinner. But he needs the cash.</span></p><p>Meanwhile Paul falls in love with a French tech genius - who thinks he's an idiot (which compared to her he is) - and he tangles with his treacherous ex Elodie.</p><p>Paul also applies for French nationality and has to embark on a war of attrition with France's Napoleonic bureaucrats.</p><p>In the background Paul's friend Jake the grunge poet decides that the Olympics and Paralympics discriminate against lazy people and invents the Nolympics.</p><p>Let the fun and games begin.</p>