Like many people the world over Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer
comedian and journalist Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11 and
spent every vacation in France desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French
chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir Tristesse Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to
explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach
us how to say goodbye to sadness.
