Sucking Shrimp - Softcover

Does for Paris what Armistead Maupin did for San Francisco - Guardian on BICHE Sexy. . . funky . . . funny . . . rebellious - Julie Burchill on BICHE Very funny and spectacularly sordid . . . BICHE is like a delicious souffle sprinkled with minutely observed details. . . Highly entertaining - Time Out on BICHE Among the most genuinely evocative and amusing naughty stuff I've ever read . . . A witty, mucky, authentic book, which puts a new and most welcome spin on this looking-for-the-one genre - Evening Standard on BICHE Comic, tender and with lashings of rude bits - The Times on BICHE

A precocious child of the 1970s feels stifled by her dull life in a small English seaside town. The only glamour in her world is Fanny Cradock's weekly TV cookery programme with its exotic concoctions of Tournedos Rossini, Crepe Suzette or Provencale octopus stew with mauve duchesse potatoes, which speak to our heroine of escape, foreign climes and sophistication. When she finally makes it abroad, however, the earthy, picaresque realities of Spain cause her to question who she really is. As her sense of self begins to curdle, she is forced to deal with unpleasant truths about her past.