A lighthearted look at how to bring more humour, happiness and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature. Covering authors such as Colette, Proust, Hugo, Flaubert, Camus and Sagan, it's an uplifting book for bibliophiles.

Viv Groskop is an award-winning comedian, writer, and broadcaster. She is the author of The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, and Financial Times and has a weekly column in the New European. She lives in London.