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    Lesbian Crushes in France: A Diary on Screwing Up my Year Abroad

    By Natasha Holme

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    In 1990 twenty-year-old Natasha finds herself in France on her university year abroad. She is ANGRY. Everyone should be a lesbian, or she will punish them for their oversight (particularly her bemused fellow English assistant friend, Ange).

    The frites and the pâtisseries are not helping Natasha recover from her bulimia. And the door-to-door Mormon missionaries are bedevilling her reluctant search for God.

    Natasha does not respond well to the frosty demands of the headmaster of the school where she is teaching.

    She passes her time befriending a pair of thieving drop-outs on the run from the law, skinning up grilled banana skins, dodging flashers, and hitch-hiking around Europe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNatasha Holme
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310140747
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    Lesbian Crushes in France: A Diary on Screwing Up my Year Abroad
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    Natasha Holme

    Probably the most prolific diary writer in the history of the world, I have been obsessively recording my crushes on females since the age of fourteen. I currently clock up half a million words per year, but never let on to the woman I'm dating that I jot down everything she says and does. I LOVED my all-girls public school. Apart from mercilessly hounding Miss Williams, with whom I fell in love at first sight at the age of twelve, I was a model pupil. In my early twenties I swapped my Latin homework for drug-taking and squatting. Having sported an 'I LOVE MISS WILLIAMS' tattoo on my left wrist for eleven years, I finally tired of the inane questions it encouraged and got a cover-up in 1999. I'm a list-writing geek and a drummer. I play table tennis and make my own beer. I am not a stalker anymore.

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      I cannot do justice to how important Natasha Holme's writing is to the zeitgeist. Holme brings an honest, and sometimes, (I'm sure) painfully honest, look at human behavior in times of stress, and how one copes with the difficulty of growing up. Holme not only confronts her past here; she puts in on display. I applaud her dedication (this is book three, of course) and her commitment to putting it all out there. I've once compared her wriiting to Susanna Kaysen's body of work, but I'll also go another step to the contemporary by saying, she is, if not better than, on par to, Lena Dunham. Write this 'show.' Produce this. I can tell you, I, and Holme's loyal followers, will not be the only ones tuning in to see the growth and failures of this character.