'As delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever read' Sunday Times

'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' Observer

'It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)' Groucho Marx

Readers turn to it again and again for its jokes, which are very funny and remain so after a dozen readingsA champagne cocktail . . . Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste . . . One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentenceAs delightful and delicate an examination of how it is to be twenty and in love and in Paris as I've ever readI had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado. It made me laugh, scream, and guffaw (which, incidentally, is a great name for a law firm)For a highly likeable and amusing narrator, who throws herself into Parisian life. A cult classic to reconnect me with France and feed my love of sharp observational humour . . . a hedonistic whirlwind in Paris and the South of France, pulled along by its whip-smart American heroine, Sally Jay Gore (out of the way, Emily In Paris). This is someone I am desperate to drink Pernod with. Where life has felt so constrained, this was such a liberating readScandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true**'A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height...SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Both funny and true

'Here was all the gaiety and glory and sparkle I knew was going to be life if I could just grasp it.'

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's American, twenty-one and in Paris. Witty, headstrong and disaster prone, she dyes her hair pink and prowls the Left Bank in search of love, adventure and fame. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?

Charming, sexy and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained cult status when it was first published and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living.