Books to understand how French women live under pressure to be Slim & Beautiful

Since living overseas, I came to realise how much French people and "anglo-saxons" are different in their approach to leading their life.

To understand better our differences, I started reading books written by British/Australian authors about French culture.

These books have helped me a lot to understand why French people are the way they are (obsessed by food and beauty, striking for no "obvious" reasons and complaining a lot when they seem to have everything to be happy).

I would really like to recommend these books to my blog readers, especially if you are interested in the French culture.

My boyfriend himself (Queenslander) found it beneficial to read some of these and feels like he now understands me better.

 - The Secret Life of France, Lucy Wadham

This beautifully clever and intellectually challenging book decodes the French way of life, as opposed to the British way of doing things, and reveals much to like about being us - and being them.

- All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, Helena Frith-Powell

Delving deep into a mysterious realm of face creams, silk lingerie, and shopping- as-exercise, Powell reveals how French women stay impossibly thin and irresistibly sexy by achieving the maximum effect from the minimum amount of effort.

- Un Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging like the French, Charles Timoney

A practical, pleasurable guide to the charms of the Gallic people - from their daily routines to their peerless gesticulations, from their come-ons to their put-downs. 

- How to be French, Margaret Ambrose

For Margaret, Paris was a place where dreams were reality; a fairytale city where beauty, elegance and style were still the ultimate ambition.