” The eponymous heroine of REMEDY is a nice Catholic girl from Florida with an adventurous sexual appetite who works in Paris for A la…
“This is less chick-lit than an insight into one strain of modern expat life: Remedy, the narrator, is fluent in French and appreciated at work,…
“The concept is familiar: a lonely romantic is on a quest to find the man of her dreams. But the originality of the writing makes…
There is something decidedly disturbing about an adult who calls her mother “Mumly”, particularly when she is dubbed “Princess” in return. But Mademoiselle Remedy O’Riley…
The follow-up to Anne Marsella’s lovely, modern-day, Paris-set fairy tale Remedy advertises itself as a ‘literary caper’. In reality, though, it’s much more of a…
What’s the answer for a solitary young American in Paris? For Remedy, salvation doesn’t lie in her job at A La Mode Online, but at a local…
(Portobello Books 2007) Remedy is a satirical variation on the theme of the American in Paris. A modern-day, upside-down fairy tale, it recounts the amorous…
(Portobello Books 2010) Every new mother has a story to tell. This is Jane de la Rochefoucault’s story and it contains all the familiar landmarks…
(Editions de la Différence, September 2008)Upon the advice of an overbooked Native American shaman in New York, Patsy Boone, a French literature major at Brown…
(New York University Press, 1994)Winner of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, this collection of tales is, as its title suggests, a sort…