And What Do You Do?

Fülszöveg

There was another very good reason for Laura taking more care over her appearance now than she ever had before. She had discovered that clothes were an armour, and the more elegant you appeared the better equipped you were to deal with that terrible question. The question that Laura dreaded as much as every other non-working person. The question that hung in the air whenever strangers exchanged small talk across a bourgeois dining table. It was only a matter of time before someone would throw it at her in all its innocence: 'And what do you do?'
Or, in French: 'Quest-ce que vous faites dans la vie?'

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aura has it all. A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children and an idyllic lady-of-leisure Parisian lifestyle. She spends her mornings sharing croissants and a grand creme with her friends, her afternoons in the Louvre and her evenings attending stylish soirees. It s the perfect life, isnt it?
But hard as Lauras trying to enjoy her perfect life, it just doesn't seem to feel as... Tovább

Fülszöveg

There was another very good reason for Laura taking more care over her appearance now than she ever had before. She had discovered that clothes were an armour, and the more elegant you appeared the better equipped you were to deal with that terrible question. The question that Laura dreaded as much as every other non-working person. The question that hung in the air whenever strangers exchanged small talk across a bourgeois dining table. It was only a matter of time before someone would throw it at her in all its innocence: 'And what do you do?'
Or, in French: 'Quest-ce que vous faites dans la vie?'

ST
aura has it all. A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children and an idyllic lady-of-leisure Parisian lifestyle. She spends her mornings sharing croissants and a grand creme with her friends, her afternoons in the Louvre and her evenings attending stylish soirees. It s the perfect life, isnt it?
But hard as Lauras trying to enjoy her perfect life, it just doesn't seem to feel as perfect as it should. It's hard to stretch 'meeting for coffee' to last the entire morning, the Scandinavian au pair is driving her to distraction, her husband's hardly ever in their beautiful home, and Parisian society doesn't exactly embrace the femme inactive.
So when her husband embarks on an affair with the irritatingly petite Flavia, Laura decides it's time to review her life . . . Vissza