As I read these books, all published over the past decade, I imagined their British or American target audiences throwing out their greying underwear, their comfy tracksuit trousers and their tasty ready meals.
by Lucy Wadham, Prospect Magazine French Women Don’t Get Facelifts by Mireille Guillano (Doubleday, £14.99) For the past fortnight I have been suffering my way through a pile of books from a growing branch of the self-help tree, all inviting me to think, look, and generally be more like a French woman. La Française, I…