Merde Actually
Merde Actually
By Stephen Clarke
"Merde Actually" is written by Stephen Clarke, who is a British journalist and a
novelist living in Paris. When he first arrived in Paris, he experienced a cultural shock and got
inspired by it. He started to keep a diary of his experiences and decided to publish it as a
novel when the Anglo-French relationships were at their worst during the Iraq War spring
2003. Therefore his novels (he has written three in this series) have become enormously
popular all around the world, especially because they are partly true. Stephen Clarke himself
still lives in Paris with his French girlfriend. This novel is considered to be seriously funny
and a comedy with a message. "Merde Actually" has one main character whose name is Paul
West, but there are also many other significant characters, that come from the previous book
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