Keen for more, I immediately purchased French Illusions Book 2, From Tours to Paris which I also loved.

I felt I was reading the author’s diary entries a she was writing them, and as I accompanied Linda on her adventures and romances, I found myself sympathizing with her problems, and celebrating her triumphs.īy the end of the first book I felt I had truly come to know the author as a person as she was then––a young girl struggling to find her way in a foreign country. Arriving here to take up with the Frenchman I’d met on holiday in Thailand, without a word of the lingo, I too floundered with the language, customs and traditions, yet immensely enjoyed the food, wine and history. And when she signed up for French classes at the university, and met another student, the handsome Adam, her life became even more complicated.Īs an Australian living in France, I completely identified with the author’s predicament. Thrown in at the deep end, without knowing any French, Linda struggled to adapt to her new environment, not to mention certain difficult members of the family. But this required speaking a second language, so she chose to learn French by becoming an au pair to a wealthy French family living in a château in the beautiful Loire Valley. Back in 1979, when she was 21, Linda yearned to become a flight attendant.

Today I'd like to welcome Linda to the Triskele Bookclub to talk about her writing of these fascinating memoirs.īut firstly, my review of French Illusions, which first appeared on Bookmuse:įrench Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley is the first of two memoirs based on the diary entries of the author, Linda Kovic-Skow. Linda Kovic-Skow is the author of the French Illusions memoirs: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley and its sequel: From Tours to Paris.

French Illusions by Linda Kovic-Skow