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Merde Actually (2005) - Known as In the Merde for Love in the USA. The latest episode in Clarkes almost-true account of his adventures as an expatriate in France is just as delightful as the original--and already a bestseller in the U.K. Stephen Clarke (born 15 October 1958 in St. Albans) is a British author who lives and works in Paris and has declared and explained his love to France: "I love France because here you are working for a living and not vice versa". His novel A Year in the Merde established him as a writer of fiction, featuring a first person narrator named Paul West. His novels depict French life style from the personal perspective of a temporarily alienated, still increasingly emphatic English gentleman who just tries to fit in but is confronted by prejudice.