When Marie-Morgane Le Moel, an adventurous French journalist, decides to try life as a foreign correspondent in Australia, it’s a steep learning curve.
How to get invited to election events, how to get a word in at press conferences when pushy Australian writers keep interrupting, and how to make new friends – especially when Immigration has firmly suggested your French-Canadian fiancé must go home. Luckily having a suitcase full of Maman’s recipes helps when homesickness hits, and it turns out the pushy Australian writer loves her galette des rois ... But will Marie ever feel that she belongs in her adopted country?
You can take the girl out of France, but can you ever take France out of the girl?