The release date for the English version of 'My Life in France' by
Julia Child is Apr 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
According to Julia herself, this best-selling account of her years spent in France served as the inspiration for the Meryl Streep and Amy Adams film Julie & Julia.
Julia Child was not always a skilled chef, even though she would go on to single-handedly pioneer a new style of American cooking with her books Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television program The French Chef. She could not speak French and had little knowledge of the nation when she and her spouse, Paul, came in France in 1948 for her husband's job with the USIS. But when she immersed herself in French culture, purchasing food at neighborhood markets and enrolling in lessons at the Cordon Bleu, her life was irrevocably transformed by her newly discovered love of teaching and cooking. Unfolding with the spirit so essential to Julia's success as a chef and writer, Julia's unforgettable story—struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year marriage that took the Childs across the globe—brilliantly captures one of America's most endearing personalities.