Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman by Tiberghien, Susan M. (2015) Paperback

by Susan M. Tiberghien

In this album of wonderfully witty and poignant essays, S.Tiberghien captures stories from thirty-five years of family life in Europe....The pages fly by and before we know it, the six children have grown. In the new silence, familiar footsteps insist that she write. WallisWilde-Menozzi, Mother Tongue, An American Life in Italy This edition of Footsteps has been withdrawn from Xlibris and republished by Red Lotus Studio Press with a new cover, new subtitle, In Love with a Frenchman, with many additional stories, recipes and photos.

Paperback

First published March 19, 2004

About the author

After marrying a Frenchman, following him around Europe with a growing family, I started to write more or less full time at the age of 50 when we settled down in Geneva, Switzerland. I published my first book, Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis, at the age of 60.

I continued to publish, two more memoirs and numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies. Then the widely read One Year to a Writing Life, and spring 2015, Side by Side: Writing your Love Story and Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman.

I have been teaching writing for over 20 years, here in Geneva where I direct the Geneva Writers' Group (an association of writers, with presently over 230 members), around Europe, and in the States for the International Women's Writing Guild, at Writers Centers, and at CG Jung Societies.

I feel extremely fortunate at the age of 80 to still be in love with the same Frenchman, to enjoy visits from our six children and spouses and sixteen grandkids...and to write and teach and read and dream.

Reviews

[Nancy Freund · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely series of vignettes, the perfect night-cap to enjoy one or two of these joyful stories before bed, putting everything right in the world, one paragraph at a time. A new edition of this book is coming out soon, and I am eagerly awaiting it with plans to start reading it again, from the beginning. 'Footsteps' reveals Susan Tiberghien as a wonderful writer, mother, wife, adventurer, expat, instructor, Jungian, and friend. This memoir earns its place among a very small number of books that will remain on my bedside table long-term. I feel very fortunate indeed that my path has crossed with Susan's and this little book has found its way into my personal library.