Product Description

This work introduces the perfect Summer read for 2006. "Bordeaux Housewives" is a new romantic comedy combining a heady mix of sunshine, sex, Sancerre and secrets. When an ordinary English family swap dreary suburbia and the rat race for the glorious countryside of France, they have no idea just how much their lives are going to change. For in addition to the culture shock, they have been selected to appear in a reality TV show about their Good Life lifestyle. But they also have a secret life which they need to hide from the cameras! Meanwhile, at the local bar, another expat is finding that local attractions amount to more than wine, cheese and sunflowers!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76883 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Praise for 'Bed of Roses': 'A heady mix of sex and satire, Daisy Waugh's brilliant book is an utterly compulsive read.' Reveal 'A sharp eye for detail and a refreshingly black comic streak -- Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye Mr Chips.' Literary Review 'A witty tale.' Woman's Own Praise for Daisy Waugh: 'Sparkling fun.' Heat 'Full of laugh-out-loud funny bits.' New Woman 'A surprisingly witty, romantic read.' Company 'A hilarious, witty comedy of modern manners.' Adele Parks 'A beguiling and very funny novel!a real joy to read.' Publishing News

Star Magazine
A fun and fruity French tale.

Hot Stars, OK Magazine, August 12, 2006
'A fun and fruity French tale.'

Customer Reviews

Great title, shame about the story
Boring, unconvincing charecters, Daffy was so wet you wanted to wring her neck and someone like thaat could never have even started to get a rundown hotel going, especially when she knew no French, let alone made it sucessful, Lady Emma Rankin, femme fatale, apparently perfectly content to be in the middle of nowhere in her huge castle, as if, and the other married couple, so dire that I've forgotten their names with their pointlessly brilliant children (are we really expected to believe that a five year old who can multiply fractions in his head would be happy in kindergarten in a rural French village? or that his parents would have put him there?) The loathesome guests were completely overdrawn too. Oh, and the plot was ludicrous. Really, don't bother with this one.

Boring and unconvincing
I struggled to finish this book, having become increasingly bored by the unlikely scenarios and improbable characters. If this book surprises it is by the very implausibility of the plot.
The leading couple, one of whom is called Horatio, the other has already escaped me, annoyed me from the start by naming their son Superman and by earning a living from helping illegal immigrants. The others just annoyed me. They are all even more one dimensional than soap characters and that's saying something.
I am one of those people who would read the cereal packet or sauce bottle in the absence of anything else, and I suppose this is marginally preferable to one of those options, but only just!

Far fetched and just plain daft
I bought this book in one of those "buy 2 get 1 free" offers you see before the summer break, all I can say is i hope this was the freebie!

The premise of the book is not all that bad but the increasingly ridiculous and far fetched scenarios we find the characters in are now starting to become increasingly irritating. I've not finished the book yet and, if i'm honest, it's only the fact that i've no other books lined up after this one that is persuading me to carry on with it.

If you're wondering whether to order this book or another....take my advice and go for the other one!